| Released | 2008 | Rating (UK) | 15 |
| Source of story | A book of the same name by Bernhard Schlink (1995) | ||
| Writer/s Script | David Hare | ||
| Director | Stephen Daldry | ||
| Starring | Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Kate Winslet, Bruno Ganz | ||
| Elevator Pitch | A middle aged lawyer in Germany of 1995 looks back over his life, particularly at a teenage love affair he had with an older woman who for no reason suddenly disappears. Later as a law student he is an observer at a Nazi war trial and is surprised to see his former lover as a defendant. He realises that he knows something about her which may affect the court’s view of her. | ||
| Content | A bit of time in the middle-aged man’s life, and with his family as a boy. Some time in the court but mostly the woman and the boy having sex, and the environment around them in 1950s Germany. | ||
| A View | Although generally well thought of, some critics seem to have taken against it because of its multiple Oscar nominations. Only one was won – Kate Winslet for Best Actress. Also won the “Best Depiction of Nudity or Sexuality” from the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Just a bit ambiguous in its treatment of war crime, but worth a view. | ||
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