A film review (EOI)

The film "The Book Thief" is based on the book by Markus Zusak. The film was directed by Brian Percival. It stars Sophie Nélisse as Liesel Meminger and Nico Liersch as Rudy Steiner, her best friend. The film and the book won eleven Oscars in 2006, 2007 and 2009 for Best Book, Best Film of the year and Best Screenplay.
This film is set in Alemania in the 1939s and 45s and it was filmed on location in Alemania and in USA.
The film is about a nine-year-old German girl called Liesel who was given up by her mother to live with Hans and Rosa Hubermann in a small town of Molching, before the World War II. On their way to Molching, Liesel's young brother died and she was traumatized but, Hans brings her comfort and helps her learn to read, starting with a book Liesel took from the cementery where her brother was buried. On her life in Molching, she befriends a neighborhood boy called Rudy, who falls in love with her; and goes every day to the mayor's wife, Ilsa Hermann, library to read her books. Later, she protects a boy called Max, who was persecuted, and they became close friends. But, when Hans publicly gives bread to an old man being sent to a concentration camp, Max must leave and Hans is drafted into the military. A few days later, the war started and only Liesel and Max survives. She went on to live a long life and died at an old age.
I really recommend "The Book Thief". It has action, romantic and also sad moments, and an important message of the narrator, which is the Death: "Death will come to us all". The film doesn't have sequels but the book is also good too.