Factual error: In the streetcar scene a passenger is a soldier wearing a US Army green uniform with a CIB, Comat Infantry Badge. At the time US uniforms were brown and there is no plausible reason for this US soldier to be in that country.
The Reader (2008)
1 factual error
Directed by: Stephen Daldry
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Kate Winslet, Bruno Ganz, David Kross, Jeanette Hain
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.
Hanna Schmitz: You don't have the power to upset me. You don't matter enough to upset me.
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