Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.


Books with substantial mentioning of The Reader

Hilary White (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 2009, 28th Edition. A Survey of the films of 2008
Detroit, [..], 2009

Articles on The Reader

Thomas Assheuer, Deutsches Reinemachen, in: Die Zeit, 26-02-2009

Martin Wolf, Strafe muss sein, in: Der Spiegel, 21-02-2009

Reviews

Jochen Schütze, Der Vorleser, in: Cinema (Germany), nr. 370 (März), 2009 pp. 40-41

Philipp Schulze, Der Vorleser, in: Cinema (Germany), nr. 376 (September), 2009 pp. 101 (DVD review)