Awards Daily recently posted the very first still from Stephen Daldry’s “The Reader,” a drama starring Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Alexandra Maria Lara, Volker Bruch and Bruno Ganz. The film, based on the book by Bernhard Schlink, opens in theaters Dec. 12. 2008.

Synopsis: Michael Berg is 15 when he begins a long, obsessive affair with Hanna, an enigmatic older woman. He never learns very much about her, and when she disappears one day, he expects never to see her again. But to his horror he discovers that she is a defendant in a Nazi war crimes trial and it soon becomes clear that she is guilty of an unspeakable crime.