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.
as Michael Berg
as Hanna Schmitz
as Young Michael Berg
as Rose Mather
as Professor Rohl
as Brigitte
as Julia
as Marthe
as Dieter Spenz
as Young Ilana Mather
as Hanna's Defense Council
as Sophie
as Carla Berg
as Peter Berg
as Judge
as Prosecuting Council
as Gerhard Bade
as Thomas Berg
as Holger
as Female Judge
as Co-Defendant
as Co-Defendant
as Remand Prison Guard #1
as Prison Librarian
as Prison Guard
as Ms. Brenner
as Student
as Holger's friend
