Kate winslet the reader metacafe

A 1995 German novel by Bernhard Schlink, The Reader, aka Der Vorleser, was adapted into a 2008 film directed by Stephen Daldry and starring Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes.

In 1995 Germany, lawyer Michael Berg (Fiennes) meets his daughter Julia, who he hasn't seen for a while since he and her mother divorced.

Before that, he recalls his sexual awakening as a teenager in 1958 when he began an affair with tram conductor Hanna Schmitz (Winslet).

Kate winslet the reader metacafe

Their sexual liaison is highlighted by him reading literary classics to her, but the affair abruptly ends when she moves out of town.

In 1966, they meet again, with him as a law student and she as a defendant on trial for war crimes.

It turns out that she was a prison guard for the SS, and was present with several other female guards when they let 300 Jewish women and children perish in a church fire. It also turns out th