The Reader
2008 · 124 MIN · IMDB 7.6 · 267,425 VOTES · DIR. Stephen Daldry
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 946 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:29 Berlin, Germany.
00:06:21 Better.
00:16:53 He’s lying.
00:20:41 It’s Horace.
00:24:43 You don’t matter enough to upset me.
00:29:26 You should be ashamed.
00:35:03 About you.
00:39:16 Every single word. Excelent!
00:43:51 Michael. You all right?
00:50:14 It’s how I was brought up.
00:53:03 I was working at Siemens when I heard the SS was recruitin
00:56:13 She was in the camp, wasn’t she, when she was a child?
00:58:54 Go! Go! Go! Go!
01:01:52 But the plan kept changing every day.
01:04:31 Tell me, I’m asking:
01:09:58 The first thing I’m asking is, why didn’t you unlock the doors?
01:11:41 Yes. I need to establish who wrote the report.
01:17:43 Time’s up.
01:23:40 You mustn’t worry about Gertrud.
01:34:19 You’re her only contact.
01:39:23 And now?
01:46:40 I was a law student.
01:49:58 What she wanted...
07:00:00 in the bank
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed946
Dialogue density7.6 lines / min
First line00:00:29
Final line07:00:00
Production Record
DirectorStephen Daldry
LanguageEnglish
Budget$32,000,000
Revenue$108,902,486
IMDb votes267,425