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.
| Camera | Roger Deakins | Director of Photography |
| Production | Donna Gigliotti | Producer |
| Art | Brigitte Broch | Production Design |
| Production | Anthony Minghella | Producer |
| Production | Simone Bär | Casting |
| Art | Eva Stiebler | Set Decoration |
| Production | Sydney Pollack | Producer |
| Editing | Claire Simpson | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Donna Maloney | Costume Design |
| Production | Redmond Morris | Producer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Ann Roth | Costume Design |
| Production | Jina Jay | Casting |
| Art | Erwin Prib | Art Direction |
| Sound | Nico Muhly | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | David Hare | Screenplay |
| Art | Yeşim Zolan | Art Direction |
| Directing | Stephen Daldry | Director |
| Camera | Chris Menges | Director of Photography |
| Art | Stefan Hauck | Art Direction |
| Art | Karin Betzler | Set Decoration |
| Editing | Barbara Jean Kearney | Digital Intermediate |
| Directing | Katri Billard | Script Supervisor |
| Directing | Susanna Lenton | Script Supervisor |
| Art | Anja Fromm | Art Direction |
| Crew | Linda Gamble | Unit Publicist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Linda Melazzo | Makeup Artist |
| Sound | Annette Kudrak | Music Editor |
| Art | Christian M. Goldbeck | Supervising Art Director |
| Production | Harvey Weinstein | Executive Producer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Peter Owen | Wig Designer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Maria Torfeld | Makeup Artist |
| Production | Jason Blum | Co-Executive Producer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Matthew Smith | Prosthetic Designer |
| Sound | George A. Lara | Foley Mixer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Chris Lyons | Special Effects Makeup Artist |
| Production | Henning Molfenter | Co-Producer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Annett Schulze | Makeup Artist |
| Sound | Michael Fowler | ADR Mixer |
| Art | Anu Schwartz | Art Direction |
| Production | Carl Woebcken | Co-Producer |
| Sound | Eric Hirsch | Sound Recordist |
| Production | Christoph Fisser | Co-Producer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Gabriele Kent-Horspool | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Anna Von Gwinner | Makeup Artist |
| Sound | Marko Costanzo | Foley Artist |
| Sound | Lee Dichter | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | Harry Higgins | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Writing | Bernhard Schlink | Book |
| Production | Bob Weinstein | Executive Producer |
