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The reader [videorecording] / The Weinstein Company presents ; a Mirage Enterprises production ; a Neunte Babelsberg Film GmBH production.

Contributor(s): Daldry, Stephen | Hare, David, 1947- | Minghella, Anthony | Pollack, Sydney, 1934-2008 | Gigliotti, Donna | Morris, Redmond | Muhly, Nico | Winslet, Kate | Fiennes, Ralph | Kross, David, 1990- | Olin, Lena | Ganz, Bruno | Schlink, Bernhard. Vorleser | Weinstein Company | Mirage Enterprises | Neunte Babelsberg Film (Firm) | Weinstein Company Home Entertainment (Firm) | Genius Products, Inc.
Publisher: [New York] : Kuala Lumpur : TWCGF Film Services II, LLC ; Distributed by Innoform Media Sdn. Bhd., c2008Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.Uniform titles: Reader (Motion picture) Subject(s): Schlink, Bernhard -- Film and video adaptations | World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Drama | Paramours -- Germany -- Drama | Man-woman relationships -- Germany -- Drama | Oral reading -- Drama | War crime trials -- Germany -- Drama | Law students -- Germany -- Drama | Germany -- History -- 1945-1955 -- DramaDDC classification: 791.4372
Production Credits: Directors of photography, Chris Menges, Roger Deakins ; production designer, Brigitte Broch ; editor, Claire Simpson ; music, Nico Muhly ; English novel translation by Carol Brown Janeway ; directed by Stephen Daldry ; screenplay by David Hare ; produced by Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Donna Gigliotti, Redmond Morris.
Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Lena Olin, Bruno Ganz, Karoline Herfurth, Linda Bassett, Hannah Herzsprung, Susanne Lothar, Volker Bruch, Matthias Habich.Summary: "What have we learned (and what might we have forgotten) from history's bloody backwash? Guilt, love, and history are three skeins, woven together to create human beings or, alternately, human monsters. The question of wartime culpability undergirds the May-December romance in postwar Berlin between Hanna, a weary-looking, sexually rapacious streetcar ticket-taker and Michael, a young schoolboy whom she seduces, ravenously and to his great delight. One day, Hanna is gone, with no explanation, and Michael grows into a promising young law student. His class attends a trial, where the new Germany judges the past and, by default, the lovers as well"--Container.
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791.4372 REA 2008 (Browse shelf) 1 Available GENxx,GENxx,01,CL 1000529644

Based on the book "Der Vorleser" by Bernhard Schlink.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2008.

Directors of photography, Chris Menges, Roger Deakins ; production designer, Brigitte Broch ; editor, Claire Simpson ; music, Nico Muhly ; English novel translation by Carol Brown Janeway ; directed by Stephen Daldry ; screenplay by David Hare ; produced by Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Donna Gigliotti, Redmond Morris.

Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Lena Olin, Bruno Ganz, Karoline Herfurth, Linda Bassett, Hannah Herzsprung, Susanne Lothar, Volker Bruch, Matthias Habich.

"What have we learned (and what might we have forgotten) from history's bloody backwash? Guilt, love, and history are three skeins, woven together to create human beings or, alternately, human monsters. The question of wartime culpability undergirds the May-December romance in postwar Berlin between Hanna, a weary-looking, sexually rapacious streetcar ticket-taker and Michael, a young schoolboy whom she seduces, ravenously and to his great delight. One day, Hanna is gone, with no explanation, and Michael grows into a promising young law student. His class attends a trial, where the new Germany judges the past and, by default, the lovers as well"--Container.

DVD, Region 1, NTSC; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround; widescreen presentation; Dolby digital.

In English with optional subtitles in English, Chinese & Malay.