The consecration of Kate Winslet
Kate Winslet has been nominated four times for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won once. He received his first nomination for Titanicmonument of American cinema that revealed her to the whole world when she was 23 years old. Eleven years later he definitively established himself with his interpretation in The readera romantic drama set in post-war Germany that earned her the Oscar for Best Actress, the BAFTA for Best Actress, as well as the Golden Globe and SAG Award for Best Supporting Actress.
The reader tells of an intense and brief romantic encounter between a young 15-year-old boy, Michael (David Kross and later Ralph Fiennes as an adult), and an older woman, Hannah (Kate Winslet), in 1950s Germany through the flesh so as through the readings of literary works that Hannah asks Michael to read. One day she leaves and disappears from Michael’s life. Eight years later, while he was a law student, he attended the a Trial against former SS guards of the Auschwitz campand recognizes Hannah. During this trial, Michael understands that Hannah is hiding a dark secret, which she is deeply ashamed of but which could clear her of one of the crimes she is accused of, and lighten her sentence. But Hannah doesn’t want to reveal her secret…
Directed by Stephen Daldry, after The Hours which earned Nicole Kidman the Oscar for best actress, The reader it’s Michael’s story and he is the main protagonist of the film. But it is Kate Winslet who is the central and ultimately main character of the story. The actress gives a touching performance, faithful to both the film’s romantic line and her own the terrible historical and moral charge of the character.
The reader Is it based on a true story?
The reader is the adaptation of the novel of the same name published in 1995 by the German writer Bernhard Schlinkformer law professor and magistrate. A worldwide success, this novel uses the love genre to explore ethical and moral issues, in a historical framework in which the Holocaust mixes with the examination of relationships between different social classes and different generations.
The reader it is based on a very real historical context and takes care of the realism and verisimilitude of its drama. It is a fiction film, adapted from a fiction novel, but the author of the novel, who has a lot in common with the character of Michael, has never hidden that there were autobiographical elements in its history. Stefano Daldry explained to Le Figaro in 2009 :
At the invitation of Bernhard Schlink, David Hare (the screenwriter, ed.) and I went to Heidelberg. In the footsteps of his hero, the young Michael Berg. The novelist took us around his city, showing us his childhood home, the route he took to school, the place where Hanna had lived? So there are a lot of elements of the story that are obviously autobiographical. But did he have a teenage romance, like Michael, in post-war Germany, with Hanna, a 36-year-old woman, who he later learned, by chance, had been a Nazi camp guard? He doesn’t say it.
(I asked him) several times. But he never answered me.
A semi-autobiographical fiction
Bernard Schlink, born in July 1944, has always left doubts as to how much and in what way he had inserted this autobiographical material into his novel. However, he indicated that he wanted to tell the story of a “German destiny”, that of his generation born immediately after the war and its relationship with the previous generation.
AS, The reader it is not strictly a true story, with the trial and Hannah’s “secret” one might strongly assume to belong to the pure fiction and dramatic necessity of the film. But there is indeed a small part of reality in this work of romantic fiction, which will remain a mystery.
Source: Cine Serie
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