With a book as beloved as The Book Thief by Markus Zusak ... the relationships between Liesel and Rudy, and Liesel and Ilsa, especially. The cuts, overall, make sense, but the additions add ...

The Mayor’s wife Ilsa (beautiful Barbara Auer), still mourning ... Corliss’s review of Terrence Davies’s The Deep Blue Sea) Perhaps The Book Thief needed an artist like Davies to turn ...

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. Meanwhile Hans hides the ...

In The Book Thief (2005), Markus Zusak's novel aimed equally at young ... The Last Human Stranger, with Ilsa Hermann in her library, as if exchanging reading tips within the context of a book club ...

Wendy Somerville as Ilsa Hermann, Edwin Ray as Walter Kugler, Lee V G as Gravedigger, and Russell Wilcox as Wolfgang Edel. Jodi Picolut and Timothy Allen McDonald adapt The Book Thief for the stage, ...

"The Book Thief" has its moments of brilliance, thanks in large part to an adept cast. But the movie about a girl adopted by a German couple during World War II also crystallizes the perils of ...

Markus Zusak's magnum opus, The Book Thief, exemplifies this phenomenon, not only enthralling readers with its poignant narrative but also imparting profound insights on themes of love ...

Some of the best movies ever made have been adapted from equally iconic books, and these great works of fiction shouldn't be forgotten. Though there are cases when the film iteration of a novel is ...

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