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Based on the novel by the same name, The Book Thief is a 2013 American drama. It was released on November 15, 2013.

Plot[]

It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The city is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.

Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living in the small city of Molching, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist – books.

With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement.

Cast[]

  • Sophie Nélisse as Liesel Meminger
  • Geoffrey Rush as Hans Hubermann
  • Emily Watson as Rosa Hubermann
  • Ben Schnetzer as Max Vandenburg
  • Nico Liersch as Rudy Steiner
  • Joachim Paul Assböck as SS officer
  • Sandra Nedeleff as Sarah
  • Hildegard Schroedter as Frau Becker
  • Rafael Gareisen as Walter Kugler
  • Gotthard Lange as Gravedigger
  • Godehard Giese as Policeman on train
  • Roger Allam as Death
  • Barbara Auer as Ilsa Hermann

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