- Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz, Karoline Herfurth, Linda Bassett, Hannah
Herzsprung, Susanne Lothar, David Kross, Volker Bruch, Matthias Habich
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When he falls ill on his way home from school, 15 year-old Michael Berg is rescued
by Hanna, a woman twice his age. The two begin an unexpected and passionate affair
only for Hanna to suddenly and inexplicably disappear. Eight years later, Michael,
now a young law student observing Nazi war trials, meets his former lover again,
under very different circumstances. Hanna is on trial for a hideous crime, and as
she refuses to defend herself, Michael gradually realizes his boyhood love may be
guarding a secret she considers to be more shameful than murder.
