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Book Thief, The

Roger Allam narrates this gut-wrenching, heartwarming, well-acted, 130-minute film in which an illiterate, book-cherishing, free-spirited girl (Sophie Nélisse) is sent to live with an accordion-playing, kindhearted German (Geoffrey Rush) and his grumpy wife (Emily Watson) after her younger brother (Julian Lehmann) suddenly dies and her mother (Heike Makatsch) can no longer care for her in 1938 and then finds herself the crush of a smitten, blonde neighborhood boy (Nico Liersch) and keeping a dangerous secret when her foster parents hide a Jew (Ben Schnetzer) in their basement to honor a commitment they made to his parents years earlier while foolishly borrowing banned books from the Nazi-loving local mayor (Rainer Bock) and his compassionate wife (Barbara Auer).
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