The Reader Blu-Ray
Academy Award and BAFTA winner Kate Winslet delivers a dynamic performance in this tale of eroticism, secrecy and guilt set in turbulent post-Nazi Germany. Bringing to life the celebrated international novel, Winslet is riveting as Hanna Schmitz - a lonely, working-class woman who experiences a brief but intense affair with a teenage boy. Years later they meet again: Hanna now a defendant in a notorious case and her ex-lover, now a law student, holding the secret to her salvation. Directed by three-time Academy Award nominee Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Hours) and featuring Ralph Fiennes (The Duchess) as the grown man still reeling from Hanna's influence, The Reader is "an exemplary piece of filmmaking" (Philip French, The Observer) about the difficult distance between truth and reconciliation.
Special Features
Deleted Scenes, Adapting A Timeless Masterpiece: Making The Reader, A Conversation With David Kross And Stephen Daldry, Kate Winslet On The Art Of Ageing Hanna Schmitz, Music From The Reader, Production Design, Theatrical Trailer
Special Features
Deleted Scenes, Adapting A Timeless Masterpiece: Making The Reader, A Conversation With David Kross And Stephen Daldry, Kate Winslet On The Art Of Ageing Hanna Schmitz, Music From The Reader, Production Design, Theatrical Trailer
Specifications | |
Aspect Ratio | 1.78:1 |
Aspect Ratio | 1.77:1 (16:9) |
Audio | English DTS HD Master Audio 5.1, English Dolby Digital 5.1 |
BBFC | 15 |
Case Type | Amaray Single |
Cast | Alexandra Maria Lara, Jeanette Hain, Bruno Ganz, Burghart Klaussner, David Kross, Karoline Herfurth, Kate Winslet, Lena Olin, Ralph Fiennes, Hannah Herzsprung, Vijessna Ferkic, Volker Bruch |
Colour | Colour |
Director | Stephen Daldry |
Discs | 1 |
Format | Blu-ray |
HOH (Hard of Hearing) | Yes |
IFCO | 15 |
Language | English |
Region | Blu-Ray B |
Released | 2009-05-24 |
Run Time | 118 |
Special Features | |
Subtitle | English |
Year | 2008 |