MOVIE · 2013
The Book Thief
DramaWar131 min
In Nazi Germany, young Liesel is sent to live with foster parents Hans and Rosa, where she learns to read and begins stealing books as the war tightens around her. Sophie Nélisse is Liesel, a girl piecing together a private world from words and stories. Geoffrey Rush’s Hans, gentle and patient, teaches her letter by letter while the family shelters a Jewish refugee beneath the stairs. As danger moves closer to their street, Liesel shares the books she’s taken, turning reading into a quiet act of connection inside a house built on secrecy.
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