South of North - Two species of illiteracy, both gravely handicapped in hidden ways, create intricate tangles of confusion, frustration
December 10, 2008, an intriguing, romantic and tragic German-American film titled “The Reader” was released. It was produced by two great film-makers Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack, both of whom died before it was released. Ralph Fiennes and Kate Winslet starred. It remains a movingly fateful love story with a stinging twist shaping the end in which a woman kills herself to hide her illiteracy. Winslet won the Academy Award for Best Actress.