Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 124 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- Germany, United States
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
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.
- based on novel or book
- germany
- war crimes
- world war ii
- women's prison
- trial
- female prisoner
- reading aloud
- love affair
- cynical
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Bruno Ganz — Professor Rohl
- Jeanette Hain — Brigitte
- Hannah Herzsprung — Julia
- Karoline Herfurth — Marthe
- Volker Bruch — Dieter Spenz
- Alexandra Maria Lara — Young Ilana Mather
- Fabian Busch — Hanna's Defense Council
- Vijessna Ferkic — Sophie
- Susanne Lothar — Carla Berg
- Matthias Habich — Peter Berg
- Burghart Klaußner — Judge
- Directed
- Stephen Daldry
- Written
- David Hare
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 3,443 ratings
- Studio
- The Weinstein Company, Mirage Enterprises, Studio Babelsberg
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
