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.
Unfortunately the movie The Reader is not yet available on HBO Max.
| Directing | Stephen Daldry | Director |
| Art | Brigitte Broch | Production Design |
| Art | Karin Betzler | Set Decoration |
| Production | Donna Gigliotti | Producer |
| Camera | Roger Deakins | Director of Photography |
| Production | Anthony Minghella | Producer |
| Production | Sydney Pollack | Producer |
| Art | Eva Stiebler | Set Decoration |
| Camera | Chris Menges | Director of Photography |
| Writing | David Hare | Screenplay |
| Editing | Claire Simpson | Editor |
| Production | Redmond Morris | Producer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Donna Maloney | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Ann Roth | Costume Design |
| Production | Simone Bär | Casting |
| Art | Stefan Hauck | Art Direction |
| Art | Yeşim Zolan | Art Direction |
| Sound | Nico Muhly | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Jina Jay | Casting |
| Art | Erwin Prib | Art Direction |
| Editing | Barbara Jean Kearney | Digital Intermediate |
| Art | Anja Fromm | Art Direction |
| Costume & Make-Up | Linda Melazzo | Makeup Artist |
| Crew | Linda Gamble | Unit Publicist |
| Directing | Susanna Lenton | Script Supervisor |
| Directing | Katri Billard | Script Supervisor |
| Sound | Annette Kudrak | Music Editor |
| Art | Christian M. Goldbeck | Supervising Art Director |
| Production | Harvey Weinstein | Executive Producer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Gabriele Kent-Horspool | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Chris Lyons | Special Effects Makeup Artist |
| Production | Henning Molfenter | Co-Producer |
| Art | Anu Schwartz | Art Direction |
| Costume & Make-Up | Matthew Smith | Prosthetic Designer |
| Production | Christoph Fisser | Co-Producer |
| Production | Jason Blum | Co-Executive Producer |
| Sound | Harry Higgins | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Anna Von Gwinner | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Maria Torfeld | Makeup Artist |
| Sound | Marko Costanzo | Foley Artist |
| Production | Charlie Woebcken | Co-Producer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Peter Owen | Wig Designer |
| Sound | George A. Lara | Foley Mixer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Annett Schulze | Makeup Artist |
| Sound | Eric Hirsch | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Michael Fowler | ADR Mixer |
| Sound | Lee Dichter | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Writing | Bernhard Schlink | Book |
| Production | Bob Weinstein | Executive Producer |
