Barbara Auer

A refugee escapes fascism by adopting a dead man's identity, leading him into an intriguing pursuit of the deceased's enigmatic wife.

Jonathan also devotes himself to looking after his father Burghardt, who has cancer. But then Burghardt’s long-lost boyhood friend Ron appears on the scene and his health visibly improves. Jonathan discovers that, many years ago, his father and Ron were deeply in love. All at once, the façade of cherished family beliefs crumbles and long-repressed secrets come to light.

Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson star in this inspiring film based on the bestseller about Liesel, (Sophie Nélisse), a girl adopted by a German couple (Rush and Watson) who hide a Jew (Ben Schnetzer) from Hitler’s army. Soon Liesel discovers that words and imagination provide an escape from the events unfolding around her family in this extraordinary film.