Carmen-Maja Antoni was born on August 23, 1945 in Berlin, Germany. She is known for her work on Der Vorleser (2008), Das weiße Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte (2009) andKnallharte Jungs (2002).
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.
An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by a series of strange events in the year leading up to WWI.
A communist kangaroo moves in with an artist in Berlin.
