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.

Director:: Stephen Daldry
Stars:: Ralph Fiennes (Michael Berg), Kate Winslet (Hanna Schmitz), David Kross (Young Michael Berg), Lena Olin (Rose Mather), Bruno Ganz (Professor Rohl), Jeanette Hain (Brigitte)