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
- Kirsten Block as Frau Heinrich
- Julian Lehmann as Liesel’s brother
- Heike Makatsch as Liesel’s mother