Running time/rating: 2:11, PG-13 for some violence and intense depiction of thematic material. Rarely has a story about an angelic schoolgirl been narrated by Death. But such is the case in the dark ...

Book burnings. Trains crammed with starving people. Forced, barefoot marches through the snow. The stories of Nazi Germany are ones everyone knows. But wait a second. This is just Liesel Meminger's ...

Sort of a young-adult version of “The Reader,’’ the low-key, English-language coming-of-age drama “The Book Thief’’ centers on an illiterate teenager caught up in the horrors of Nazi Germany. Liesel ...

“The Book Thief” is terribly likable, which is an odd thing to say about a Holocaust movie. Based on the best-selling book by Markus Zusak, the film is set in a small town in World War II-era Germany.

Liesel Meminger (Sophie Nélisse) arrives in Germany at the age of 9. Her mother has given her up for adoption, saving her from the Nazis, but her brother—also selected by her adoptive parents to have ...

The Book Thief is a 2005 award-winning historical fiction written by Markus Zusak, published by Picador. The novel is set in Molching, Germany, during World War II and follows the story of Liesel and ...

Fox 2000 optioned Markus Zusak's young adult novel The Book Thief a few years ago. The project is moving forward now that the studio hired Brian Percival to direct. Death narrates the novel, set ...

"I hate Hitler!" yell Liesel and Rudy, two German adolescents in Second World War Germany, who scream their frustration with the Fuhrer to the pine trees outside of town. The sentiment is easy to get ...