Kate Winslet braves the cold to film what appears to be a beach scene in a chilly Cologne. Dressed in unforgiving high-waisted shorts and a tied blouse, a slender Kate was shooting scenes for the forthcoming movie The Reader.

Kate wraps up warm as she leaves the set of the movie The Reader in the German city of Cologne.

GALLERY LINKS:
• The Reader: On the Set – April 4, 2008

Dressed in high-waisted shorts and a tied blouse, Kate Winslet braves the frigid cold while filming The Reader in chilly Cologne, Germany on Friday.

In the film, Kate, 32, plays the character of tram conductor Hanna Schmitz. Schmitz is described as an illiterate and former guard at Auschwitz for the major Nazi military organization under Adolf Hitler.

The Reader is scheduled to be released on December 12. Ralph Fiennes also costars.

Source: JustJared

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GALLERY LINKS:
• Awards & Galas: 79th Annual Academy Awards: Vanity Fair Party
• Magazines: InStyle Russia – March, 2008 (Thanks to Mirik)

For shooting with Kate Winslet (Titanic) traffic society Görlitz next week puts her timetable on the head. For the filming of Bernhard Schlink’s best-seller The Reader the British actress on the second week-end in March rises in a historical streetcar. “Nothing goes as well as before”, said small farmer with oxen of the Connex Sachsen GmbH (?) on Thursday. He meets by order the VGG the arrangements with the film people. The team around the British director Stephen Daldry takes from the 7th to the 9th March Görlitzer rails in fitting.

The action plays in the post-war German land where 15-year-old pupil Michael Berg falls in love with much older conductor Hanna Schmitz. As a law student he meets her years later in the courtroom again when she sits with a war crimes trial as an earlier concentration camp supervisor on the dock. Kate Winslet and the German up-and-coming actor David Kross crisp show the unequal pair in the film. Ralph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz and Karoline Herfurth belong to the occupation furthermore. (ut/dpa)

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