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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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Box Office

Budget: $32,000,000
Revenue: $108,902,486
ROI: +240.3%

Verdict: Hit

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Crew

Directors

> Stephen Daldry (Director)
> Chris Menges (Director of Photography)
> Roger Deakins (Director of Photography)
> Christian M. Goldbeck (Supervising Art Director)

Writers

> David Hare (Screenplay)
> Bernhard Schlink (Book)