Character mistake: During the seminar, Professor Rohl tells students that only 19 workers of Auschwitz were sentenced (in 1966). During the first trial of Nazis from Auschwitz, 39 were sentenced, including 23 persons condemned to death. The trial was in 1947 in Krakow.
The Reader (2008)
1 character mistake
Directed by: Stephen Daldry
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Kate Winslet, Bruno Ganz, David Kross, Jeanette Hain
Visible crew/equipment: When Michael is on the train you can see a crew member's face reflected on the glass window of the train.
Hanna Schmitz: It doesn't matter what I think. It doesn't matter what I feel. The dead are still dead.
Question: At the trial, first, we are told that all the women died in the church, but then a woman survived - we are not told how - and she appears to be quite old; then we are told that her granddaughter wrote the book about it. Was the granddaughter in the church, as well, and survived somehow? I'm confused.
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Chosen answer: There were two survivors: a woman and her daughter, who was named Ilana. It was Ilana's memoirs of her and her mother's experience in the camp that were published. Ilana, the daughter, may have helped with the actual writing based on her mother's memories (since Ilana's own memories could be bleak, as she was just a child).
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