![]() A story of adoption and a demonstration of Christian values, THE BOOK THIEF is a compelling movie that shows what love looks like in the midst of extraordinary hardship. Yet, wherever our young heroine goes, she blazes a trail transforming the lives of countless people. Her mother’s communist leanings in Nazi Germany brings her to the foster care system on the eve of World War II. Set in National Socialist Germany, this is a small story that tugs at the heart. More Detail:īased on the New York Times best seller, THE BOOK THIEF is a wonderful work that follows the story of one young girl and her search for home, family and belonging. (CC, BB, CoCo, HH, Ab, Pa, VV, M) Strong Christian, moral worldview includes elements of love and self-sacrifice, funeral scene with a priest praying, one quick prayer from girl’s adoptive father, and narrated by the voice of Death, who gives a vaguely biblical reference at the end, plus elements of love marred by stealing as a major plot device, pro-Communism, pro-humanism, racism, and propaganda claiming a difference between one form of socialism and another some swearing in German that is not translated violence includes adoptive mother disciplines a little girl, National Socialist thugs bash windows of Jewish shop owners, men and women kicked and brutalized by soldiers, girl beats up boy, boy beats another boy, two boys die, brutality, air raid bombs explode, and dead bodies recovered afterward kissing and hugging partial upper male nudity when boy takes a bath no alcohol no smoking or drug use and, the vicissitudes of war, including falsified documents and scrounging for possessions. Rated PG-13 for brutality, war themes, propaganda, and violence, THE BOOK THIEF requires caution for some serious subjects and some propagandistic elements. THE BOOK THIEF tells a positive Christian, moral tale of adoption and self-sacrifice. The performances are delightful and heartwarming, despite the difficult circumstances. “I am haunted by humans,” the Angel of Death confesses.īased on the New York Times best seller, THE BOOK THIEF is wonderfully directed by Brian Percival of DOWNTON ABBEY. The Angel says he’s usually not concerned with the lives of humans, but the story of 11-year-old Liesel attracts him. Narrating the story is the voice of the Angel of Death. The wealthy burgomeister’s wife lets Liesel use her dead son’s exquisite library. Liesel befriends max, a Jewish man hiding from the Gestapo. After the tragic death of her younger brother, Liesel is taken in by two foster parents and befriended by a little boy named Rudy. THE BOOK THIEF, set against the backdrop of Nazi Germany, follows 11-year-old Liesel’s search for home, family and belonging amid incredibly difficult circumstances.
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