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.

• DirectorStephen Daldry
• Release10 December 2008
• Genre
  Drama / Romance
• Duration2h 4m
• Budget$32,000,000
• Revenue$108,902,486
• Rate
  

  7.5
  3183 reviews
• Productions

  The Weinstein Company, Mirage Enterprises, Studio Babelsberg