Bernhard Schlink

You are browsing the Bernhard Schlink tag archive.

The Reader

Fifteen-year-old Michael Berg (David Kross) meets and is drawn into a torrid affair in the summer of 1958 with Hanna Schmitz (Kate Winslet), a woman more than twice his age. She vanishes, leaving his life as abruptly and mysteriously as she had entered. Michael next sees her in 1966 as a law student, whose class [...]

The Reader

A German boy journeys to manhood while coming to terms with a world he did not create in “The Reader.” As a young man in the 1950s, the adults in Michael’s life lived during and, to differing degrees, participated in the Nazi atrocities of his country. Only 15-years-old, Michael Berg (David Kross) has a brief [...]

Tags