The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.
Country:
United States
Year:
2008
Tags:
based on novel or bookfranticcourtroom dramacautionarydepressingcruelcynicaldefiantcomplexgermanywar crimesdishearteningtragicolder woman younger man relationshiptriallove affairwomen's prisonshameteenage sexualitylaw studentfemale prisonerreading aloudreading to someonesecret loverliteracywest germanyembarrassed
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