a 40-year period from 1958 to 1990 in Western Germany - in Heidelberg. 15-year-old schoolboy Michael Berg meets 36-year-old tram conductor Hanna Schmitz. Between them there is an affair. Hannah regularly asks Michael to read her books. Several months later, she suddenly disappears.After 8 years, law student Michael gets on a show trial nasmotrelas concentration camp Auschwitz. Among the defendants he recognizes Hanna. Her and other magsmorris accused that she during the bombing began and after it the fire would not open the doors of 300 Jewish women who were hiding in a Church and burned alive there. Proof of guilt is a report, supposedly written by Hannah. Michael realizes that in fact, Hanna is illiterate, so she asked me to read her books, which she could not read. Respectively, and a report to write, she couldn't either. He wants to help her, but does not. Hanna was sentenced to life imprisonment, the others — in a relatively short period of time.10 years after the divorce, Michael begins to recite into a tape recorder some of the books that he read to Hanna in the past. The records of these books he sends her to jail. Hannah, comparing entries with text, learning to read. After 18 years in prison, the court releases it. Michael the only thing familiar to her. A week before its release, they see each other in prison. Hannah worried about his attitude, but Michael is her remorse for the crime against humanity. The day before the release of Hannah hung in the chamber, leaving earned at the conclusion of the money a former prisonerk of Auschwitz.
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