The Reader - 2008

"Societies think they operate by something called morality, but they don't. They operate by something called law.
8000 people worked at Auschwitz. Precisely 19 have been convicted, and only 6 of murder.
The question is never "Was it wrong", but "Was it legal". And not by our laws, no. By the laws at the time." Professor Rohl

What happens when the person who changed your life is placed on trial for war crimes? What do you do when you know a secret that could save their life and they don't want it exposed?

Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.

Based on Bernhard Schlink's best-seller.