![]() Liesel also finds out about Johann here, who was the son of Ilsa and is now missing. Instead, Ilsa takes her into their library and tells Liesel she can come by anytime and read as much as she'd like. Liesel realizes that the woman who saw her taking the book is the mayor's wife and she is scared she will be found out. One day, Rosa asks Liesel to take the laundry to the mayor's house. Hans discovers that she has taken the book and tells her she must keep it a secret from everyone. She is seen by Ilsa Hermann (Barbara Auer), the mayor's (Rainer Bock) wife. 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. Liesel and Rudy become members of the Hitler Youth movement. Liesel becomes obsessed with reading anything she can get her hands on. When Hans, her stepfather, realizes that Liesel cannot read, he begins to teach her, using the book that she took from the graveside. ![]() She impresses Rudy and they become fast friends. One of the boys, Franz Deutscher, challenges her to read just one word to which Liesel responds by beating him up. Later that day, she is taunted by her schoolmates who chant "dummkopf", "stupid" in German. When the teacher asks Liesel to write her name on the chalkboard, she is only able to write three 'X's, showing that she doesn't know how to read. Rudy accompanies her on her first day of school. When she arrives, Liesel makes an impression on a neighbor boy, Rudy Steiner (Nico Liersch). Liesel is then delivered to foster parents Hans (Geoffrey Rush) and Rosa (Emily Watson) Hubermann, because her mother, a Communist, is in danger. At his burial she picks up a book that has been dropped by his graveside (a gravedigger's manual). Liesel is traveling on a train with her mother (Heike Makatsch) and younger brother when her brother dies. In April 1938, a voice representing Death (Roger Allam), tells about how the young Liesel Meminger (Sophie NĂ©lisse) has piqued his interest. Liesel becomes captivated with reading anything she can. When Hans, her foster father, realizes that Liesel cannot read, he begins to teach her, using the book that she took from the graveside, and a giant chalkboard. She impresses Rudy, and they become fast friends. She is taunted by her schoolmates who chant "dummkopf" ("dunce") at her. When the teacher asks Liesel to write her name on the chalkboard, she is only able to write three Xs, revealing to her classmates that she is unable to write. Rudy Steiner, a boy who lives next door, accompanies her on her first day of school. Liesel is then brought to her new home in Munich, where she meets her new foster parents Rosa Hubermann and Hans Hubermann. Liesel steals her first book, titled The Grave Digger's Handbook, when it falls out of the gravedigger's pocket. On the way, her brother dies and is buried next to the tracks. ![]() In one of the opening scenes, Liesel is traveling with her mother and younger brother on a train. In February 1938, a voice representing Death tells about how the young Liesel Meminger has piqued his interest. Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil But in times of war there are many threats and the lives of Liesel, her family and friends will never be the same. One day, Rosa asks Liesel to deliver laundry to the Mayor and Ilsa invites Liesel to go to her library and tells that she can visit her to read whenever she wants. Meanwhile Hans hides the Jewish Max Vandenburg, who is the son of a deceased friend that saved his life in the war, in the basement of his house and Liesel becomes his friend. 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. 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 1938, the young girl Liesel Meminger is traveling by train with her mother and her younger brother when he dies.
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