Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: A watan Afrilun 1998 Miramax Films ta sami haƙƙin littafin The Reader, kuma an fara ɗaukar hoto a watan Satumbar 2007 nan da nan bayan Stephen Daldry ya sanya hannu don jagorantar daidaita fim ɗin kuma an jefa Fiennes a matsayin jagora. Winslet an fara zabar ta a matsayin Hanna, amma matsalolin tsarawa tare da titin juyin juya hali ya sa ta bar fim din kuma an zabi Nicole Kidman a matsayin mai maye gurbin ta. A watan Janairun 2008, Kidman ta bar aikin, tana mai ambaton kwanan nan da ta yi ciki a matsayin babban dalilin. Ba ta harbi wani yanayi ba tukuna, don haka ɗakin studio ya sami damar sake yin Winslet ba tare da shafar jadawalin samarwa ba. An yi fim a Berlin, Görlitz, a kan titin Kirnitzschtal kusa da Bad Schandau, kuma an gama shi a Cologne a ranar 14 ga Yuli. Masu shirya fim sun sami dala 718,752 daga Hukumar Kula da Fim ta Tarayyar Jamus. Gabaɗaya, ɗakin studio ya karɓi dala miliyan 4.1 daga ƙananan hukumomin yanki da na tarayya na Jamus. Schlink ya nace a harbi fim ɗin a Turanci maimakon Jamusanci, saboda ya gabatar da tambayoyi game da rayuwa a cikin al'ummar da ke bayan kisan kare dangi wanda ya wuce tsakiyar karni na Jamus. Daldry da Hare sun ziyarci wurare daga littafin tare da Schlink, sun kalli fina-finai game da wannan lokacin a tarihin Jamus, kuma sun karanta littattafai da labarai game da matan da suka yi aiki a matsayin masu tsaron SS a sansanonin. Hare, wanda ya ƙi yin amfani da maganganun murya don ba da dogon maganganu na ciki a cikin littafin, ya kuma canza ƙarshen don Michael ya fara ba da labarin Hanna da shi ga 'yarsa. "Yana game da adabi a matsayin ingantacciyar hanyar sadarwa, kuma a wasu lokuta a matsayin madadin sadarwa", in ji shi. Babban 'yan wasan kwaikwayo, dukkansu Jamusawa ne ban da Fiennes, Olin, da Winslet, sun yanke shawarar yin koyi da lafazin Kross tunda ya koyi Turanci don fim ɗin. Chris Menges ya maye gurbin Roger Deakins a matsayin mai daukar hoto. Daya daga cikin masu shirya fim din, Scott Rudin, ya bar samarwa saboda takaddama game da tsarin gyarawa da sauri don tabbatar da ranar fitowar 2008 kuma an cire sunansa daga jerin sunayen. Rudin ya bambanta da Harvey Weinstein "saboda ya...  Tambaya: Wanene Chris Mege ya maye gurbinsa a matsayin mai daukar hoto
Roger Deakins