Adapted Screenplay

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Screenplay by David Hare
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ACADEMY AWARDS HISTORY

This is the second Academy Award nomination for David Hare. He was previously nominated for:

  • THE HOURS (2002) -- Nominee, Writing (Adapted)

FILM SYNOPSIS

In late 1950s Germany, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg begins an affair with Hanna, a woman in her mid-thirties. Hanna's past contains a dark secret, however, the revelation of which, in the decades following the period of his first experience with love, will both shock Michael and force him to confront his country's history.
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