The film The Reader is adapted from the German writer Schlink's novel of the same name.
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On the CCTV show, hosted and produced by 董卿, each guest talks about a turning point in their life and then reads a passage aloud. In 2017 it also put reading booths in city streets where anyone could record a reading.
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In the novel, set in postwar Germany, a teenage boy has an affair with an older woman, 汉娜·施密茨, who asks him to read aloud to her; years later he learns she was a guard at a concentration camp. Kate Winslet won an Oscar for the role in the film.
