Some months later, after a lonely recuperation, he comes back to her flat with a bunch of flowers to say thank you.
With brisk and motherly can-do, she mops his brow, sloshes away the sick with a bucket of water and makes sure he gets home all right. One rainy day, she chances upon Michael (David Kross), a teenage boy shivering, throwing up and almost delirious with undiagnosed fever in the courtyard of her apartment building. Kate Winslet gives a typically intelligent performance as Hanna, a sturdy, unprepossessing woman in a provincial town in 1950s West Germany she is employed as a tram conductor. Its full, questionable nature emerges as the narrative unfolds those fearful of spoilerism had better look away now.
#Movie the reader movie
This was, I admit, a problem I had with the original novel, and the movie treatment has not alleviated it. Everyone involved in this film is of the highest possible calibre, but their combined and formidable talents could not annul my queasiness that the question of Nazi war guilt and the death camps had been reimagined in terms of a middlebrow sentimental-erotic fantasy. M uch praise has been given to this adaptation by screenwriter David Hare and director Stephen Daldry of Bernhard Schlink's 1995 novel Der Vorleser, or The Reader - the German title has the sense of "reader-aloud".
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