The Book Thief
Cast:
Rodger Allam, Sophie Nelisse, Heike Makastch, Julian Lehmann, Kristen Block, Geoffery Rush, Emily Watson, Nico Liersch, Oliver Stokowski, Hildegard Schroedter, Levin Liam, Ben Schnetzer, Sandra Nedeleff, Rainer Bock, Barbra Auer, Matthias Matschke, Martin Ontrop and Carina N. Wiese.
Synopsis:
IT IS 1939. NAZI GERMANY. THE COUNTRY IS HOLDING ITS BREATH. DEATH HAS NEVER BEEN BUSIER, AND WILL BECOME BUSIER STILL.
Liesel Meminger and her brother are being taken be their mother to live with a foster family outside Munich. Liesel's father was taken away on the breath of a single, unfamiliar word - Kommunist - and Liesel sees the fear of a similar fate in her mother's eyes. On the journey, Death visits the young boy, and notices Liesel. It will be the first of many nearer encounters. By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is "The Gravedigger's Handbook", left there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordion-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever there are books to be found. But these are dangerous times. When Liesel's foster family hides a Jewish fist-fighter in their basement, Liesel's world is both opened up, and closed down. "The Book Thief" is a story about the power of words to make worlds. In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-wining author Markus Zusak has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.
The Book Thief was on my reading list but I was never able to find the time to read it. Instead, the movie caught my eye on TV one day and as soon as I saw it had the history of Nazi Germany, I loved it. Not because I love Nazi Germany but because the history of it is so intriguing and devastating at the same time. I love to learn about this sort of stuff and that is why I think the Book Thief is one hell of a film. It touched many hearts, including my own and I would recommend this film endlessly to anyone. Perhaps it is unsuitable for children as it does involve violence and mature scenes, nonetheless it is a movie that will get your heart falling as if it weights a thousand tonnes.
It contains the atrocious reality that was Germany in 1939-1945, the second world war and I think it makes an accurate description to what historians have said. In addition to that, the Book Thief offers an accurate description to what we learn in school and the old footage from the time of Hitler's powerful reign.
The narration of the character Death is what I call 'shrewd skills' in terms of writing. I think it is beautifully written as a novel, although I have only read one or two chapters. I'm still longing for the appropriate time to read it. I adore the character of Liesel Meminger and Rudy Steiner who becomes Liesel's friend. They are such bubbly and naive characters to represent the children of Nazi Germany and they are exactly how I imagined the children in Germany during WWII to be.
Most critics express that this film lacks the true stature of Nazi Germany and of course anyone can see that it does lack the level of violence that occurred in reality. How on Earth are film-makers going to get the war aspects of the past reality into this film as well as the story line? Films are as unrealistic as they go because what happens in most of them are completely untrue and fictional as they're trying to tell a story. No one can ever repeat the authentic nature of Nazi Germany in a film unless it is a documentary or actual footage from the time.
IMDB: 7.6
Rodger Allam, Sophie Nelisse, Heike Makastch, Julian Lehmann, Kristen Block, Geoffery Rush, Emily Watson, Nico Liersch, Oliver Stokowski, Hildegard Schroedter, Levin Liam, Ben Schnetzer, Sandra Nedeleff, Rainer Bock, Barbra Auer, Matthias Matschke, Martin Ontrop and Carina N. Wiese.
Synopsis:
IT IS 1939. NAZI GERMANY. THE COUNTRY IS HOLDING ITS BREATH. DEATH HAS NEVER BEEN BUSIER, AND WILL BECOME BUSIER STILL.
Liesel Meminger and her brother are being taken be their mother to live with a foster family outside Munich. Liesel's father was taken away on the breath of a single, unfamiliar word - Kommunist - and Liesel sees the fear of a similar fate in her mother's eyes. On the journey, Death visits the young boy, and notices Liesel. It will be the first of many nearer encounters. By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is "The Gravedigger's Handbook", left there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordion-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever there are books to be found. But these are dangerous times. When Liesel's foster family hides a Jewish fist-fighter in their basement, Liesel's world is both opened up, and closed down. "The Book Thief" is a story about the power of words to make worlds. In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-wining author Markus Zusak has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.The Book Thief was on my reading list but I was never able to find the time to read it. Instead, the movie caught my eye on TV one day and as soon as I saw it had the history of Nazi Germany, I loved it. Not because I love Nazi Germany but because the history of it is so intriguing and devastating at the same time. I love to learn about this sort of stuff and that is why I think the Book Thief is one hell of a film. It touched many hearts, including my own and I would recommend this film endlessly to anyone. Perhaps it is unsuitable for children as it does involve violence and mature scenes, nonetheless it is a movie that will get your heart falling as if it weights a thousand tonnes.
It contains the atrocious reality that was Germany in 1939-1945, the second world war and I think it makes an accurate description to what historians have said. In addition to that, the Book Thief offers an accurate description to what we learn in school and the old footage from the time of Hitler's powerful reign.
The narration of the character Death is what I call 'shrewd skills' in terms of writing. I think it is beautifully written as a novel, although I have only read one or two chapters. I'm still longing for the appropriate time to read it. I adore the character of Liesel Meminger and Rudy Steiner who becomes Liesel's friend. They are such bubbly and naive characters to represent the children of Nazi Germany and they are exactly how I imagined the children in Germany during WWII to be.
Most critics express that this film lacks the true stature of Nazi Germany and of course anyone can see that it does lack the level of violence that occurred in reality. How on Earth are film-makers going to get the war aspects of the past reality into this film as well as the story line? Films are as unrealistic as they go because what happens in most of them are completely untrue and fictional as they're trying to tell a story. No one can ever repeat the authentic nature of Nazi Germany in a film unless it is a documentary or actual footage from the time.
IMDB: 7.6
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