The Reader is a period drama film by director Stephen Daldry. The Reader is set in 1950s post-war Germany and features a beautiful love story between a young boy and an older woman. The story revolves around a solitary, emotionally numb attorney Michael Berg who swifts the audience back into 19955 Berlin where he met an exquisite Hanna.
Here’s how you can watch and stream The Reader via streaming services such as Amazon Prime Video.
Is The Reader available to watch via streaming?
Yes, The Reader is available to watch via streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
The movie has immaculately shown the hard subjects of post-Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. It places the audience in the middle of a romance where Michael loses his virginity to a beautiful Hannah and is cared for by Hannah during his Scarlet fever. However, Michael, the young soldier gets devastated by Hannah’s sudden disappearance. But they meet when she appears in the court as a defendant where Michael attends a war crimes trial.
The cast consists of Oscar award-winning actress, Kate Winslet as Hanna Schmitz, English actor, film producer, and director, Ralph Fiennes as Michael Berg and David Kross as younger Michael Berg.
Watch The Reader streaming via Amazon Prime Video
The Reader is available to watch on Amazon Prime Video. Amazon Prime Video houses genres and subgenres like horror, romance, Slapstick comedy, mockumentaries and thrillers. Amazon Prime Video offers its subscribers a list of shows, movies, stand-up shows and anime to choose from. Some of the content to watch on Prime Video are The Legend of Vox Machina, The Devil’s Hour and Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, The Office and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
You can watch via Amazon Prime Video by following these steps:
- Go to Amazon Prime Video
- Select ‘Sign in’ and ‘Create your Amazon account’
- Sign up for a Prime Video membership:
- $14.99 per month or $139 per year with an Amazon Prime membership
- $8.99 per month for a standalone Prime Video membership
Amazon Prime is the online retailer’s paid service that provides fast shipping and exclusive sales on products, so the membership that includes both this service and Prime Video is the company’s most popular offering. However, you can also opt to subscribe to Prime Video separately.
The Reader synopsis is as follows:
“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.”
NOTE: The streaming services listed above are subject to change. The information provided was correct at the time of writing.
