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"What have we learned (and what might we have forgotten) from history's bloody backwash? Guilt, love, and history are three skeins, woven together to create human beings or, alternately, human monsters. The question of wartime culpability undergirds the May-December romance in postwar Berl...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
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[New York, N.Y.] :
Weinstein Co. Home Entertainment,
[2008]
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Swank Digital Campus) |
| Summary: | "What have we learned (and what might we have forgotten) from history's bloody backwash? Guilt, love, and history are three skeins, woven together to create human beings or, alternately, human monsters. The question of wartime culpability undergirds the May-December romance in postwar Berlin between Hanna, a weary-looking, sexually rapacious streetcar ticket-taker and Michael, a young schoolboy whom she seduces, ravenously and to his great delight. One day, Hanna is gone, with no explanation, and Michael grows into a promising young law student. His class attends a trial, where the new Germany judges the past and, by default, the lovers as well."--Container |
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| Item Description: | Based on the book "Der Vorleser" by Bernhard Schlink. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2008. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 video file (124 min.)) : sound, color |
| Audience: | MPAA rating: Rated R for some scenes of sexuality and nudity. |
| Production Credits: | Directors of photography, Chris Menges, Roger Deakins ; production designer, Brigitte Broch ; editor, Claire Simpson ; music, Nico Muhly ; English novel translation by Carol Brown Janeway. |