Meanwhile Hans hides the Jewish Max Vandenburg, who is the son of a. The Book Thief 2013 Drama 2 h 10 min English audio CC PG-13 53 Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson star in this inspiring film based on the bestseller about Liesel, (Sophie Nlisse), a girl adopted by a German couple (Rush and Watson) who hide a Jew (Ben Schnetzer) from Hitler’s army. During a Nazi speech where the locals are forced to burn books in a bonfire, Liesel recovers one book for her and the Mayor's wife Ilsa Hermann witnesses her action. When Hans discovers that Liesel cannot read, he teaches her using her book and Liesel becomes an obsessed reader. Liesel befriends her next door neighbor, the boy Rudy Steiner, and they go together to the school. Her stepmother, Rosa Hubermann, is a rude but caring woman and her stepfather, Hans Hubermann, is a simple kind-hearted man. Liesel is delivered to a foster family in a small town and later she learns that her mother left her because she is a communist. Both Hans and the Jew are whipped by a Nazi officer. Her mother buries the boy in a cemetery by the tracks and Liesel picks up a book, 'The Gravediggers Handbook', which was left on the grave of her brother and brings it with her. In the book, Hans gives some bread to a Jew as he is being marched through the town. When the bonfire ends and everyone but she has left, she grabs a book that has not been burned. While at a Nazi book burning ceremony, Liesel and Rudy are bullied into throwing books onto the bonfire by Franz, but Liesel is upset to see the books being burned.

In 1938, the young girl Liesel Meminger is traveling by train with her mother and her younger brother when he dies. Liesel and Rudy become members of the Hitler Youth movement.

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