Starring Ralph Fiennes, Kate Winslet and David Cross Directed by Stephen Daldry In this haunting period drama, Kate Winslet stars as Hanna Schmitz, a woman who has an affair with Michael Berg (Kross), a 15-year-old boy in 1950s Germany. They spend their passionate but brief romance together, with Michael reading literature to his lover. Soon, Hanna abruptly disappears, and Michael returns to his normal life. Eight years later, Michael (Fiennes) is studying law but when he sees Hanna again, she is on trial for her crimes as a Nazi prison guard. As he watches her on the witness stand, memories of their time together bring him to the point of realization concerning a startling, long-buried truth about Hanna - if he divulges this information; it could modify the prison sentence handed out and dramatically alter her fate.