Movie · 2008

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Behind the mystery lies a truth that will make you question everything you know.

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Melancholic romance Historical trauma Moral ambiguity War crimes reckoning Shame and secrecy Age gap romance

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Release
2008
Runtime
124 min

Synopsis

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.

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