The Book Thief (2013)

This film is an adaptation of Markus Zusak's best-selling novel of the same name, published in 2005, won the Michael L. Printz Award in 2007 and was directed by Brian Percival, known for directing the film A Boy Called Dad.

Set in the midst of World War II, it portrays those times and tells the story of the girl Liesel Memminger, who was adopted by a German working class family during that time.

She helps her father and learns to read and share books with a Jewish man, who is the son of a friend of her father, who lives hidden in the basement of his house named Max, these she stole from the library of the house where she took the clothes that her mother washed to a lady.

That passion managed to distract her from the continuous bombings that were happening and in the end it will be the one that saves her.

It is a film with some unexpected twists that show the human and savage side of war, not the one they are used to show but the simple one, the one of the people who suffer without having a political conviction and for whom friendship is more important.

Sophie Nélisse has the main role in the play, it is only her second appearance on camera and she has won several awards, including Young Actress, while Geoffrey Rush: winner of the Oscar for Best Actor in 1996 for the film Shine and nominated three more times, is Hans Hubermann, the girl's father.

Emily Watson, with two previous Oscar nominations, plays the role of Rosa Hubermann and is also the voice of the omniscient narrator of the play, who represents the Angel of Death.

The film was released in November 2013 and critical opinion was mixed, highlighting the work of Nelisse, Rush and Watson, but also noting the numerous minor differences between the script and the book.

The film cost $19 million to produce and grossed over $76 million.