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The Book Thief
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Embodying the disastrous incidents and the havoc that wars cause in communities, and its influences on people and children, such as the second World War, where a young teenager girl named Liesel struggles against living in such a community, as she rob books to read them for Max, a Jew, who was hiding in their house.
Embodying the disastrous incidents and the havoc that wars cause in communities, and its influences on people and children, such as the second World War, where a young teenager girl named Liesel struggles against living in such a community, as she rob books to read them for Max, a Jew, who was hiding in their house.
Actors:
Godehard Giese,
Ludger Bökelmann,
Mike Maas,
Ben Schnetzer,
Sophie NĂ©lisse,
Carl Heinz Choynski,
Hildegard Schroedter,
Marie Burchard,
Oliver Stokowski,
Rafael Gareisen,
Sebastian HĂŒlk,
...»
Godehard Giese
1972
Ludger Bökelmann
Mike Maas
17 August 1969
Ben Schnetzer
Sophie NĂ©lisse
27 March 2000, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Carl Heinz Choynski
31 May 1936, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Hildegard Schroedter
20 May 1958, Arnsberg, Westphalia, Germany
Marie Burchard
6 October 1982, Bonn, Germany
Oliver Stokowski
8 August 1962, Kassel, Germany
Rafael Gareisen
1994, Vienna, Austria
Sebastian HĂŒlk
10 January 1975, Bottrop, Germany
Director:
Brian Percival
Brian Percival
Country:
Germany, United States
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March 10, 2014
Regrettably this poignant and profound story, does not feel very poignant nor profound at all.November 25, 2013
Markus Zusak's enormously successful young-adult novel seems to have been adapted as a movie for middle-aged children.March 08, 2014
Showing tragic events through a child's eyes can be a powerful storytelling strategy, but there's something altogether too cosy and bland about Downton Abbey director Brian Percival's handling of the material here.November 21, 2013
A tale of WWII Germany as seen through the eyes of a young girl, "The Book Thief" is unobjectionable, sentimental, and not a little dull.March 22, 2014
Zusak's story is stirring, and it holds the film up during most of its predictable parts, but The Book Thief never rises too far above that. The narration from Death only serves to make it more like some sort of fantastical fairy tale.June 07, 2016
'The Book Thief' mixes British actors using German accents, a few German actors, and the occasional German word, creating a playfully successful illusion of German-ness.December 10, 2013
The movie lacks the nerve to treat death as anything more menacing than the tooth fairy.November 21, 2013
Pretty visuals give an unexpectedly painful twist to other parts of the story.March 24, 2014
This extremely moving drama suggests the Holocaust story Ray Bradbury might have written: Events are seen through a child's eyes; books are shown to contain a healing, transformative power; and the supernatural is real, if symbolic.November 22, 2013
"The Book Thief" may not be perfect, but it may steal your heart.May 05, 2014
Ultimately not much more complex than the moment in which two children yell "I hate Hitler" across a lake, it imparts the message that Nazis are bad, books are good, and Geoffrey Rush would make a great dad even in WWII Germany
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November 21, 2013
You just wonder if this film's audience might be happier at home, curled up with a book. "The Book Thief," perhaps.