The Book Thief (film)

The Book Thief is a 2013 AmericanGerman war drama film directed by Brian Percival and starring Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson, and Sophie Nlisse. The film is based on the 2005 novel The Book Thief by Markus Zusak and adapted by Michael Petroni. The film is about a young girl living with her adoptive German family during the Nazi era. Taught to read by her kindhearted foster father, the girl begins borrowing books and sharing them with the Jewish refugee being sheltered by her foster parents in their home. The film features a musical score by Oscarwinning composer John Williams.

In April 1938, a voice representing Death Roger Allam tells about how the young Liesel Meminger Sophie Nlisse has piqued his interest. Liesel is traveling on a train with her mother Heike Makatsch and younger brother when her brother dies. At his burial she picks up a book that has been dropped by his graveside a gravediggers manual. Liesel is then delivered to foster parents Hans Geoffrey Rush and Rosa Emily Watson Hubermann because her mother, a Communist, is fleeing Germany. When she arrives, Liesel makes an impression on a neighboring boy, Rudy Steiner Nico Liersch.Rudy accompanies her on her first day of school. When the teacher asks Liesel to write her name on the chalkboard, she is only able to write three Xs. She draws the first X and the children laugh at her she draws the second X and the children laugh at her more and finally on the third X she is then asked to return to her seat, embarrassed, showing that she doesnt know how to read. Later that day, she is taunted by her schoolmates who chant dummkopf dunce in German at her. One of the boys, Franz Deutscher, challenges her to read just one word to which Liesel responds by beating him up. She impresses Rudy, and they become fast friends. When Hans, her foster father, realizes that Liesel cannot read, he begins to teach her, using the book that she took from the graveside. Liesel becomes captivated with reading anything she can. ........

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