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You can watch The Reader (2008) for free on Plex Channel, rent on Apple TV+, or buy on Apple TV+.

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.

The Reader is a film that explores themes of based on novel or book, germany, war crimes. It also touches on world war ii and women's prison and trial.

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