The Reader, a movie directed by Stephen Daldry and starring Ralph Fiennes as Michael Berg, David Kross as young Michael Berg, and Kate Winslet as Hanna Schmitz, is an unusual film because unlike most pieces that tackle the shocking subject of the Holocaust, it deals with the lives of ordinary Germans at the time. Additionally, it brings the film into the modern day, showing the effects of the war on German lives almost half a century after the time of the atrocities.
The movie’s form is that of a retrospect. It opens in Berlin in 1995 with Michael Berg (Ralph Fiennes), a ...
