1 00:00:48,591 --> 00:00:50,802 One small fact. 2 00:00:50,969 --> 00:00:53,221 You are going to die. 3 00:00:53,388 --> 00:00:57,225 Despite every effort, no one lives forever. 4 00:01:01,396 --> 00:01:03,982 Sorry to be such a spoiler. 5 00:01:04,148 --> 00:01:08,653 My advice is, when the time comes, don't panic. 6 00:01:08,820 --> 00:01:10,947 It doesn't seem to help. 7 00:01:27,755 --> 00:01:30,216 I guess I should introduce myself properly. 8 00:01:30,383 --> 00:01:33,219 But then again, you'll meet me soon enough. 9 00:01:33,386 --> 00:01:35,888 Not before your time, of course. 10 00:01:36,055 --> 00:01:39,934 I make it a policy to avoid the living. 11 00:01:53,031 --> 00:01:56,701 Well, except sometimes. 12 00:01:56,868 --> 00:02:00,163 Once in a very long time... 13 00:02:01,122 --> 00:02:03,499 I can't help myself. 14 00:02:04,375 --> 00:02:06,185 I get interested. 15 00:02:16,888 --> 00:02:21,434 I don't know exactly what it was about Liesel Meminger. 16 00:02:25,521 --> 00:02:27,565 But she caught me. 17 00:02:31,361 --> 00:02:32,737 Mama. 18 00:02:35,990 --> 00:02:37,408 And I cared. 19 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:54,425 Do you want to say a few words? 20 00:03:01,724 --> 00:03:03,851 Goodbye my darling 21 00:04:07,123 --> 00:04:10,001 She would have kept you if she could have. 22 00:04:10,835 --> 00:04:13,337 You know that, don't you? 23 00:04:35,067 --> 00:04:37,862 Here we are. Come, Liesel. 24 00:04:39,363 --> 00:04:41,365 Meet your new parents. 25 00:04:42,867 --> 00:04:44,243 Come. 26 00:04:46,078 --> 00:04:47,205 Hans Hubermann. 27 00:04:47,371 --> 00:04:48,456 Heinrich. 28 00:04:50,082 --> 00:04:51,584 Heinrich. 29 00:05:12,146 --> 00:05:13,523 Where is the boy? 30 00:05:14,398 --> 00:05:15,525 He died. 31 00:05:16,359 --> 00:05:17,485 What do you mean? 32 00:05:17,610 --> 00:05:19,904 On the way here. 33 00:05:20,071 --> 00:05:21,823 They had to bury him by the tracks. 34 00:05:21,989 --> 00:05:24,659 They promised us two children, with two allowances. 35 00:05:24,826 --> 00:05:26,911 Rosa, you cannot blame the boy for dying. 36 00:05:27,078 --> 00:05:28,204 No, I blame his mother. 37 00:05:28,371 --> 00:05:30,706 Dragging them across the country unfed, unwashed! 38 00:05:30,873 --> 00:05:32,266 She was running for her life. 39 00:05:32,291 --> 00:05:33,417 Have you seen that girl? 40 00:05:34,001 --> 00:05:35,294 Filthy. 41 00:05:35,461 --> 00:05:38,773 Everything they say about communists is true. Dirty and stupid. 42 00:05:38,798 --> 00:05:41,259 I'll speak as loud as I want. 43 00:05:44,929 --> 00:05:45,930 Come. 44 00:05:48,474 --> 00:05:49,600 Come! 45 00:05:50,059 --> 00:05:51,727 What is the matter with her? 46 00:05:56,691 --> 00:05:58,609 Your Majesty. 47 00:06:08,327 --> 00:06:10,788 What are you brats looking at? 48 00:06:13,583 --> 00:06:16,878 This is Heaven Street, your new home. 49 00:06:18,129 --> 00:06:20,923 Hey, lover boy! Can we get on with the game now? 50 00:06:25,970 --> 00:06:27,805 Please, go in. 51 00:06:50,119 --> 00:06:51,787 Well, go on. 52 00:06:54,457 --> 00:06:55,458 What do you say? 53 00:06:58,878 --> 00:07:01,339 They have given us a mute. 54 00:07:03,132 --> 00:07:04,926 Go upstairs. 55 00:07:22,777 --> 00:07:23,861 Where is it? 56 00:07:26,906 --> 00:07:28,157 That one. 57 00:07:37,208 --> 00:07:38,834 It's for you. 58 00:07:45,049 --> 00:07:46,192 Hans! 59 00:07:46,217 --> 00:07:47,969 Ja, my sunshine? 60 00:08:47,486 --> 00:08:48,946 Good morning, Your Majesty. 61 00:08:55,911 --> 00:08:58,539 Would you stop that racket? 62 00:09:08,090 --> 00:09:10,092 What do you say? 63 00:09:11,427 --> 00:09:12,511 Thank you. 64 00:09:12,636 --> 00:09:13,763 It speaks? 65 00:09:15,973 --> 00:09:18,893 Now, listen, from now on you call me "Mama," ja? 66 00:09:20,770 --> 00:09:21,979 Say it. 67 00:09:22,980 --> 00:09:23,981 Mama. 68 00:09:24,106 --> 00:09:25,191 Good. 69 00:09:25,983 --> 00:09:30,529 And that Saukerl, that lazy pig over there... 70 00:09:31,906 --> 00:09:33,991 you call him "Papa." Understood? 71 00:09:34,241 --> 00:09:35,242 Papa. 72 00:09:39,830 --> 00:09:41,332 Who is that? 73 00:09:41,499 --> 00:09:42,875 Who is it? 74 00:09:43,667 --> 00:09:45,628 Rudy Steiner, Frau Hubermann. 75 00:09:45,795 --> 00:09:47,004 What do you want? 76 00:09:48,172 --> 00:09:50,174 My mother says you've got a daughter now. 77 00:09:50,633 --> 00:09:52,009 What's it to you? 78 00:09:52,843 --> 00:09:55,179 I'm here to take her to school. 79 00:09:55,763 --> 00:09:57,890 Why can't people ever mind their own business? 80 00:09:59,016 --> 00:10:00,159 Hello, Rudy. 81 00:10:00,184 --> 00:10:01,268 Hello! 82 00:10:04,772 --> 00:10:07,358 And what makes you think you are good enough for my daughter? 83 00:10:07,525 --> 00:10:08,526 Rudy. 84 00:10:10,027 --> 00:10:11,529 I'm almost 12. 85 00:10:12,905 --> 00:10:15,783 Liesel, eat your soup and go and get dressed. 86 00:10:15,950 --> 00:10:18,702 Stay outside, you filthy Saukerl. 87 00:10:21,705 --> 00:10:23,124 Hurry up, Liesel. 88 00:10:28,587 --> 00:10:29,839 Do you like to run? 89 00:10:32,967 --> 00:10:34,885 I bet I could beat you. 90 00:10:35,344 --> 00:10:37,721 No one has ever beaten me in a race. 91 00:10:42,852 --> 00:10:44,979 You don't say much, do you? 92 00:10:48,524 --> 00:10:51,735 Is that one spit, "Yes," and two spits, "No"? 93 00:10:54,947 --> 00:10:56,407 I'm glad we understand each other. 94 00:10:57,658 --> 00:11:01,453 My mother didn't really tell me to come and get you. 95 00:11:02,788 --> 00:11:06,417 I just thought you might need a friend. 96 00:11:16,760 --> 00:11:18,762 - Danke schön! - Rudy! 97 00:11:20,890 --> 00:11:22,183 What are you up to? 98 00:11:22,474 --> 00:11:23,642 Nothing, Papa. 99 00:11:23,809 --> 00:11:25,102 Then get to school. 100 00:11:41,869 --> 00:11:43,204 Come on. 101 00:11:52,213 --> 00:11:53,339 You are? 102 00:11:56,842 --> 00:11:58,427 Frau Hubermann's new daughter. 103 00:11:58,844 --> 00:12:00,763 I was not addressing you, Steiner. 104 00:12:02,389 --> 00:12:04,266 Girl, speak. 105 00:12:06,268 --> 00:12:07,561 Liesel Meminger. 106 00:12:09,146 --> 00:12:10,814 Chalk, board, name. 107 00:12:14,568 --> 00:12:16,987 Come, girl. We don't have all day. 108 00:12:22,743 --> 00:12:24,078 Write it. 109 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:36,048 Silence. 110 00:12:40,844 --> 00:12:42,346 Silence! 111 00:12:42,680 --> 00:12:45,224 Back to your seat, now. 112 00:12:50,187 --> 00:12:51,730 Silence. 113 00:12:55,192 --> 00:12:59,697 Dummkopf! Dummkopf! Dummkopf! 114 00:13:05,286 --> 00:13:08,163 Hey, Dummkopf. Can't you even read yet? 115 00:13:08,330 --> 00:13:11,041 Go on. Read one word. Read something. 116 00:13:11,208 --> 00:13:12,376 Dummkopf. 117 00:13:28,058 --> 00:13:29,059 She's killing him! 118 00:13:44,825 --> 00:13:46,660 I bet that wasn't your first fight. 119 00:13:47,369 --> 00:13:49,496 Franz Deutscher hasn't been hit like that... 120 00:13:49,663 --> 00:13:52,249 since he peed in Tommy Müller's lunchbox. 121 00:13:52,416 --> 00:13:55,294 Franz Deutscher doesn't sound very smart. 122 00:13:55,461 --> 00:13:57,588 He's the dumbest kid in school. 123 00:13:58,297 --> 00:13:59,340 But he shaves. 124 00:14:01,216 --> 00:14:02,926 You remember how to get home? 125 00:14:03,093 --> 00:14:05,929 Just because I can't read doesn't make me stupid. 126 00:14:06,096 --> 00:14:08,307 All right. I'll follow you, then. 127 00:14:11,852 --> 00:14:14,480 You could join our soccer team, you know? 128 00:14:14,646 --> 00:14:18,734 Look, you should probably just stop trying to be my friend... 129 00:14:19,234 --> 00:14:20,861 because I won't be here long enough. 130 00:14:21,028 --> 00:14:22,279 Why not? 131 00:14:22,529 --> 00:14:25,282 I'm running away. That's why not. 132 00:14:25,449 --> 00:14:26,742 Where to? 133 00:14:26,909 --> 00:14:28,660 None of your business. 134 00:14:29,745 --> 00:14:32,414 Well, let me know when. 135 00:14:32,581 --> 00:14:33,749 Why? 136 00:14:34,416 --> 00:14:36,210 So I can come with you. 137 00:14:36,710 --> 00:14:39,588 You don't understand. I'm serious. 138 00:14:39,755 --> 00:14:41,298 I have to find my mother. 139 00:14:41,465 --> 00:14:42,549 Frau Hubermann? 140 00:14:42,716 --> 00:14:45,778 Nein, Dummkopf. My real mother. 141 00:14:45,803 --> 00:14:46,804 Great. 142 00:14:46,929 --> 00:14:48,972 I'd like to meet her. 143 00:14:51,642 --> 00:14:52,768 What are you doing now? 144 00:14:52,893 --> 00:14:54,019 Racing you. 145 00:14:54,937 --> 00:14:57,689 I'll bet you a kiss I can beat you. 146 00:14:58,440 --> 00:14:59,600 Why would I want to kiss you? 147 00:14:59,900 --> 00:15:02,861 I don't know. What does that matter? 148 00:15:03,028 --> 00:15:04,780 I'm the one who's going to win. 149 00:15:05,406 --> 00:15:07,658 Just to the end of the street. 150 00:15:09,785 --> 00:15:11,120 And what if I win? 151 00:15:11,703 --> 00:15:12,996 You don't have to kiss me. 152 00:15:13,247 --> 00:15:14,581 Ever? 153 00:15:16,667 --> 00:15:17,793 What do you care? 154 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:20,379 You're not sticking around, right? 155 00:15:22,506 --> 00:15:24,258 Hey! Saumensch! 156 00:15:47,823 --> 00:15:48,866 You cheated. 157 00:15:49,283 --> 00:15:50,451 So what? 158 00:15:53,036 --> 00:15:54,455 - I beat you. - Did not. 159 00:15:55,164 --> 00:15:56,165 It was a draw. 160 00:15:56,707 --> 00:15:59,126 Draw means I get the kiss. 161 00:15:59,293 --> 00:16:00,711 You can stick your kiss. 162 00:16:02,087 --> 00:16:03,088 Oh, my God. 163 00:16:03,630 --> 00:16:05,257 She's going to kill you. 164 00:16:07,259 --> 00:16:08,302 Who? 165 00:16:14,433 --> 00:16:16,894 If you think that I am some kind of pushover... 166 00:16:17,436 --> 00:16:19,062 you are very much mistaken. 167 00:16:19,229 --> 00:16:20,606 Do you hear? 168 00:16:26,403 --> 00:16:28,947 I have just come to say good night. 169 00:16:35,579 --> 00:16:36,955 What is this? 170 00:16:38,081 --> 00:16:39,082 Is it yours? 171 00:16:48,383 --> 00:16:51,803 Why would a nice girl like you want to read such a thing? 172 00:16:57,434 --> 00:16:59,603 Are you sure this is yours? 173 00:17:00,062 --> 00:17:02,272 It wasn't always mine. 174 00:17:04,274 --> 00:17:05,984 It belonged to my brother. 175 00:17:06,151 --> 00:17:07,194 I see. 176 00:17:07,653 --> 00:17:09,279 Your brother... 177 00:17:09,446 --> 00:17:12,449 his name was Pieter Strauss? 178 00:17:21,875 --> 00:17:23,335 Do you know what this says? 179 00:17:26,421 --> 00:17:27,701 Do you want to know what it says? 180 00:17:36,223 --> 00:17:38,642 I'm not such a good reader myself, you know. 181 00:17:39,101 --> 00:17:41,645 We will have to help each other out. 182 00:17:42,479 --> 00:17:43,647 Ja? 183 00:17:45,566 --> 00:17:48,026 We better get started. 184 00:17:48,652 --> 00:17:53,031 "The Gravedigger's Handbook." 185 00:19:21,828 --> 00:19:22,871 Walter. 186 00:19:23,038 --> 00:19:25,290 Listen, he told me he can only take one. 187 00:19:25,874 --> 00:19:27,709 - Take Max. - No, Mama. 188 00:19:27,876 --> 00:19:28,960 Take him! Go! 189 00:19:29,086 --> 00:19:30,170 I won't leave without you. 190 00:19:30,337 --> 00:19:31,338 Yes, you will. 191 00:19:31,838 --> 00:19:34,341 Upon your father's grave, you will. 192 00:19:34,508 --> 00:19:35,801 There's no time for heroics, Max. 193 00:19:35,967 --> 00:19:37,260 One or none. 194 00:19:37,511 --> 00:19:38,762 Come. 195 00:19:40,222 --> 00:19:41,406 The papers are inside. 196 00:19:41,431 --> 00:19:43,725 They don't look great, but they'll have to do. 197 00:19:44,810 --> 00:19:46,061 Go find him. 198 00:19:49,356 --> 00:19:50,982 Forgive me. 199 00:19:57,906 --> 00:20:01,410 When I finally caught up with Max Vandenberg's soul... 200 00:20:02,244 --> 00:20:04,746 it was this moment that haunted him the most. 201 00:20:06,039 --> 00:20:08,208 For leaving his mother. 202 00:20:08,375 --> 00:20:12,087 For feeling that awful, light-headed relief... 203 00:20:12,671 --> 00:20:15,048 that he would live. 204 00:20:21,138 --> 00:20:24,182 Jesse Owens is the fastest man on earth. 205 00:20:24,349 --> 00:20:26,309 Hey, watch out, you two. 206 00:20:28,311 --> 00:20:29,813 What are you doing, Papa? 207 00:20:31,148 --> 00:20:32,315 Working, for once. 208 00:20:32,983 --> 00:20:35,819 I thought you painted signs, not scraped them off. 209 00:20:37,154 --> 00:20:39,948 Well, the scraping-off business is picking up, Rudy. 210 00:20:41,116 --> 00:20:42,284 What can you do? 211 00:20:42,701 --> 00:20:44,494 "Accountant." 212 00:20:46,037 --> 00:20:48,874 You make me proud, girl. She's clever, Rudy. 213 00:20:49,416 --> 00:20:50,667 Ja, sir. 214 00:20:52,085 --> 00:20:53,378 What's an accountant? 215 00:20:54,004 --> 00:20:55,797 Something we will never need. 216 00:20:57,215 --> 00:21:00,093 "We wish you..." 217 00:21:00,260 --> 00:21:04,598 "every success..." 218 00:21:05,390 --> 00:21:07,559 "with your..." 219 00:21:09,686 --> 00:21:11,872 - "career..." - Mmm. 220 00:21:11,897 --> 00:21:14,416 "In the funeral..." 221 00:21:20,405 --> 00:21:21,698 "Business." 222 00:21:21,865 --> 00:21:23,241 "Funeral business." 223 00:21:24,868 --> 00:21:27,287 We made it. Your first book. 224 00:21:28,038 --> 00:21:29,748 Congratulations. 225 00:21:33,919 --> 00:21:36,254 So, promise me one thing, Liesel. 226 00:21:36,421 --> 00:21:40,217 If I die anytime soon, make sure they bury me right. 227 00:21:40,467 --> 00:21:41,635 - Ja? - Ja. 228 00:21:41,968 --> 00:21:44,471 No skipping chapter six. 229 00:21:45,597 --> 00:21:47,098 Can we start again? 230 00:21:48,391 --> 00:21:49,893 Tomorrow. 231 00:21:51,144 --> 00:21:52,729 But it is tomorrow. 232 00:21:52,896 --> 00:21:54,147 You sleep now. 233 00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:09,913 His name was Werner. 234 00:22:20,298 --> 00:22:23,760 Come. I have a surprise for you. 235 00:22:26,763 --> 00:22:28,974 It's very dark here. 236 00:22:29,140 --> 00:22:30,851 We had better turn on the light. 237 00:22:36,439 --> 00:22:37,941 It's a dictionary. 238 00:22:42,445 --> 00:22:44,531 Some of the words we have learned. 239 00:22:49,536 --> 00:22:51,538 Add as many as you like. 240 00:22:52,789 --> 00:22:54,499 It's yours. 241 00:22:57,961 --> 00:22:59,880 Thank you, Papa. 242 00:23:36,708 --> 00:23:40,170 He's done it! He's made history! 243 00:23:40,337 --> 00:23:41,588 Jesse Owens... 244 00:23:41,755 --> 00:23:43,131 the fastest man alive! 245 00:23:43,423 --> 00:23:44,482 Hey! 246 00:23:45,592 --> 00:23:47,260 What is this? 247 00:23:51,514 --> 00:23:52,682 Ow! 248 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:05,528 You want to remain a member? Teach your son! 249 00:24:14,788 --> 00:24:16,122 Why? 250 00:24:16,289 --> 00:24:18,416 Why Jesse Owens? 251 00:24:18,583 --> 00:24:19,709 Why? 252 00:24:19,876 --> 00:24:21,394 He's the fastest man on earth. 253 00:24:21,419 --> 00:24:24,047 The fastest man on earth! 254 00:24:24,214 --> 00:24:25,231 The boy is crazy. 255 00:24:25,256 --> 00:24:27,592 - Ow! That hurts. - Sit still, Rudy. 256 00:24:28,551 --> 00:24:30,804 It's even in his earholes. 257 00:24:30,971 --> 00:24:32,222 Barbra... 258 00:24:32,681 --> 00:24:34,140 Fine, you deal with him. 259 00:24:39,562 --> 00:24:40,897 Son... 260 00:24:41,064 --> 00:24:45,235 you can't go around painting yourself black, you hear? 261 00:24:45,402 --> 00:24:46,569 Why not? 262 00:24:48,113 --> 00:24:50,740 Because you shouldn't want to be black people. 263 00:24:51,574 --> 00:24:52,742 Why? 264 00:24:53,910 --> 00:24:56,746 Because I say so. Ja? 265 00:24:58,456 --> 00:25:02,585 "Dear Mama, today is the Führer's birthday." 266 00:25:03,086 --> 00:25:04,754 "I wish it was mine." 267 00:25:05,463 --> 00:25:09,342 "Maybe then you could come and see me." 268 00:25:09,968 --> 00:25:12,178 "I miss you all day long." 269 00:25:12,345 --> 00:25:15,640 "Sometimes, I think I see you in the street." 270 00:25:15,807 --> 00:25:18,309 "But it's never you." 271 00:25:20,186 --> 00:25:24,482 "My new mama is like a thunderstorm. Always rumbling." 272 00:25:24,649 --> 00:25:26,693 Hans, where did you put the flag? 273 00:25:26,860 --> 00:25:29,863 If we don't find it, it's going to look like we're saying something. 274 00:25:30,030 --> 00:25:31,270 All right, all right, all right. 275 00:25:31,281 --> 00:25:33,033 I'm going to look in the basement. 276 00:25:33,825 --> 00:25:35,285 God in Heaven. 277 00:25:37,537 --> 00:25:39,622 Liesel, I know you like it down here... 278 00:25:39,789 --> 00:25:42,125 but don't you think you should be outside a bit? 279 00:25:42,292 --> 00:25:43,835 I'm writing Mama a letter. 280 00:25:44,002 --> 00:25:45,712 Well, that's very good. 281 00:25:45,879 --> 00:25:48,673 Please tell her, from me, I could do without all the nagging. 282 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:50,467 Not that mama. 283 00:25:52,719 --> 00:25:53,928 I see. 284 00:25:55,972 --> 00:25:57,057 What are you telling her? 285 00:25:58,516 --> 00:25:59,851 Everything. 286 00:26:00,018 --> 00:26:03,313 About you und Mama und Rudy. 287 00:26:04,981 --> 00:26:06,024 Can you send it for me? 288 00:26:07,025 --> 00:26:08,026 Well... 289 00:26:08,151 --> 00:26:10,278 You could give it to the woman who brought me here. 290 00:26:10,820 --> 00:26:12,697 Frau Heinrich? Ja. 291 00:26:13,531 --> 00:26:16,993 I'm sure she would do her best to pass it on. 292 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:21,122 Ah, found it. 293 00:26:30,340 --> 00:26:32,759 What is she doing writing to her mother, anyway? 294 00:26:32,926 --> 00:26:34,344 She's her mother. 295 00:26:34,511 --> 00:26:36,012 I'm not going to waste good money... 296 00:26:36,179 --> 00:26:38,848 on a stamp for a letter that's never going to be answered. 297 00:26:39,015 --> 00:26:40,517 What was I to say? 298 00:26:41,768 --> 00:26:43,520 - Hans? - Alex. 299 00:26:45,355 --> 00:26:47,857 Good man. Are you ready to go? 300 00:26:48,024 --> 00:26:49,526 Of course he is. 301 00:26:49,692 --> 00:26:50,710 Liesel! 302 00:26:50,735 --> 00:26:52,255 Come on, Liesel, we'll miss the parade. 303 00:26:59,369 --> 00:27:00,745 Right. 304 00:27:01,913 --> 00:27:03,456 Come on, let's go. 305 00:27:03,623 --> 00:27:05,416 Saumensch. Hello, Rudy. 306 00:27:11,631 --> 00:27:15,009 During this National Socialist revolution 307 00:27:15,301 --> 00:27:20,223 as much as our nation prospers, we should not decrease 308 00:27:20,890 --> 00:27:23,726 our determination to cleanse ourselves morally 309 00:27:23,977 --> 00:27:25,895 and intellectually from within 310 00:27:27,856 --> 00:27:32,610 Education, theater, films, literature, the press 311 00:27:33,153 --> 00:27:35,655 these are the supporting pillars 312 00:27:35,822 --> 00:27:40,118 which shape the unique personality of our nation 313 00:27:42,537 --> 00:27:47,709 And that is why we have gathered here tonight 314 00:27:48,251 --> 00:27:53,256 to free ourselves from any intellectual dirt 315 00:28:02,974 --> 00:28:05,310 We will exterminate the illness 316 00:28:05,643 --> 00:28:09,772 that infected Germany for the last twenty years. 317 00:28:10,940 --> 00:28:14,194 We will completely destroy the chains 318 00:28:14,444 --> 00:28:18,031 that were forged to enslave us. 319 00:28:20,158 --> 00:28:25,663 We will fight our enemies and if that means war 320 00:28:26,164 --> 00:28:30,627 then we will stand by our Führer until the final victory 321 00:28:33,046 --> 00:28:37,842 Such a war will see our nation restored 322 00:28:38,509 --> 00:28:42,138 and bring an end to our enemies. 323 00:28:43,890 --> 00:28:46,434 The end of plutocrats. 324 00:28:47,143 --> 00:28:50,480 The end of communists. 325 00:28:50,897 --> 00:28:53,650 And the end of Jews 326 00:28:55,568 --> 00:28:57,779 To our great German Empire 327 00:28:58,154 --> 00:29:02,533 and to our beloved Führer, Adolf Hitler. 328 00:29:03,159 --> 00:29:04,702 - Sieg! - Heil! 329 00:29:58,381 --> 00:30:00,216 Hey, Jesse Owens. 330 00:30:00,633 --> 00:30:01,634 Push off, Franz. 331 00:30:02,093 --> 00:30:03,219 Leave him alone. 332 00:30:03,344 --> 00:30:06,472 Did you like the speech, Dummkopf? Were you listening? 333 00:30:06,597 --> 00:30:07,724 What about it? 334 00:30:07,890 --> 00:30:09,475 Your mother was one, wasn't she? 335 00:30:09,642 --> 00:30:11,769 A communist? That's what they say. 336 00:30:12,228 --> 00:30:13,313 Who's "they"? 337 00:30:13,479 --> 00:30:14,731 You even look like one. 338 00:30:15,064 --> 00:30:16,441 What are you talking about? 339 00:30:16,607 --> 00:30:18,484 I'm not talking to you, Steiner. 340 00:30:18,651 --> 00:30:19,986 She knows. 341 00:30:21,821 --> 00:30:23,239 Burn a book. 342 00:30:24,073 --> 00:30:25,950 Go on, burn a book. 343 00:30:26,326 --> 00:30:29,412 Go on! I'll be watching. Both of you. 344 00:30:30,913 --> 00:30:33,082 What was that about? 345 00:30:33,249 --> 00:30:34,751 Nothing. 346 00:31:42,527 --> 00:31:43,528 Liesel. 347 00:31:44,237 --> 00:31:47,240 Where have you been? I said to meet me at the church. 348 00:31:47,407 --> 00:31:48,825 Sorry, Papa. 349 00:31:48,991 --> 00:31:50,243 Let's go now. 350 00:32:03,506 --> 00:32:04,882 What is it? 351 00:32:05,425 --> 00:32:06,759 Nothing. 352 00:32:10,888 --> 00:32:12,348 Are you sick? 353 00:32:12,515 --> 00:32:14,517 Nein. I'm fine. 354 00:32:19,188 --> 00:32:20,415 Tell me, what is the matter with you? 355 00:32:23,526 --> 00:32:25,194 What the hell is this? 356 00:32:26,988 --> 00:32:27,989 You stole it? 357 00:32:29,073 --> 00:32:30,074 Sorry, Papa. 358 00:32:33,202 --> 00:32:35,204 Are you going to tell Mama? 359 00:32:36,747 --> 00:32:37,957 Papa? 360 00:32:38,458 --> 00:32:40,209 Did anyone see you? 361 00:32:43,129 --> 00:32:44,755 I'll tell you what. 362 00:32:46,424 --> 00:32:47,758 Let's make this our secret. 363 00:32:48,384 --> 00:32:50,219 We'll read it like the other book. 364 00:32:51,095 --> 00:32:52,597 In the basement. 365 00:32:52,722 --> 00:32:54,223 Thank you, Papa. 366 00:32:55,141 --> 00:32:56,392 Good, now. 367 00:32:57,226 --> 00:33:00,563 We better get back before Mama worries. We don't want that. 368 00:33:02,648 --> 00:33:04,317 Liesel, come. 369 00:33:11,407 --> 00:33:13,075 What is it? 370 00:33:17,497 --> 00:33:19,165 Liesel? 371 00:33:20,416 --> 00:33:23,836 My mother isn't coming back, is she? 372 00:33:28,633 --> 00:33:29,717 Is she a communist? 373 00:33:31,844 --> 00:33:33,554 - Who told you that? - Is she? 374 00:33:37,016 --> 00:33:38,601 Did the Führer take her away? 375 00:33:40,811 --> 00:33:42,480 Then I hate the Führer. 376 00:33:42,605 --> 00:33:43,814 Nein. 377 00:33:45,274 --> 00:33:47,109 You can't say that. 378 00:33:47,777 --> 00:33:49,612 Don't ever say that. 379 00:33:53,074 --> 00:33:54,158 Understand? 380 00:33:58,162 --> 00:33:59,247 Come. 381 00:34:02,542 --> 00:34:07,004 "The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells." 382 00:34:07,171 --> 00:34:08,798 Sounds good. 383 00:34:11,842 --> 00:34:13,469 "Chapter one." 384 00:34:14,053 --> 00:34:16,889 "The Strange Man's Arrival." 385 00:34:17,807 --> 00:34:21,727 "The stranger came early in Feb..." 386 00:34:24,230 --> 00:34:26,774 "February." Ah. 387 00:34:29,402 --> 00:34:30,653 Good girl. 388 00:34:37,827 --> 00:34:38,995 Who's that? 389 00:34:41,038 --> 00:34:42,164 Papa, who is it? 390 00:34:53,509 --> 00:34:55,344 Hans Hubermann? Ja. 391 00:34:56,220 --> 00:34:57,888 Do you still play the accordion? 392 00:34:58,514 --> 00:34:59,557 Quickly. 393 00:35:02,685 --> 00:35:04,061 Papa! Liesel, go to bed! 394 00:35:04,979 --> 00:35:06,188 What is this? 395 00:35:07,607 --> 00:35:09,083 Max. 396 00:35:09,108 --> 00:35:10,651 No. No. 397 00:35:11,736 --> 00:35:13,029 Help me. 398 00:35:13,988 --> 00:35:15,364 We'll put him upstairs. 399 00:35:16,324 --> 00:35:18,284 Liesel, everything is fine. 400 00:35:20,036 --> 00:35:21,329 Here we go. 401 00:35:33,007 --> 00:35:35,009 I'll warm him some soup. 402 00:35:43,517 --> 00:35:45,102 Who is he, Papa? 403 00:35:49,774 --> 00:35:52,985 I have something very important to tell you, Liesel. 404 00:35:54,236 --> 00:35:56,197 You must listen. 405 00:36:07,166 --> 00:36:09,210 That is not my accordion. 406 00:36:10,503 --> 00:36:13,464 The man who owns that accordion is this boy's father. 407 00:36:16,676 --> 00:36:17,735 You stole it? 408 00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:18,928 Nein. 409 00:36:19,261 --> 00:36:21,097 I've been looking after it. 410 00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:24,225 Did he die? 411 00:36:25,601 --> 00:36:26,811 Ja. 412 00:36:28,604 --> 00:36:30,398 Many years ago. 413 00:36:30,940 --> 00:36:33,109 Before you were born. 414 00:36:36,153 --> 00:36:37,988 I saw him die. 415 00:36:40,074 --> 00:36:41,575 In a war. 416 00:36:42,284 --> 00:36:43,552 You were in a war? 417 00:36:43,577 --> 00:36:44,578 Ja. 418 00:36:45,496 --> 00:36:48,916 His father gave up his life... 419 00:36:49,458 --> 00:36:50,876 for me. 420 00:36:52,586 --> 00:36:54,630 And I made a promise to the family... 421 00:36:54,797 --> 00:36:58,426 if ever I could help them, I would. I gave them my word. 422 00:37:00,302 --> 00:37:02,930 Now, I need you to promise me. 423 00:37:03,764 --> 00:37:05,783 I need you to give me your word 424 00:37:05,808 --> 00:37:08,644 that you will not tell anyone about our visitor. 425 00:37:09,854 --> 00:37:12,857 Nobody. Not a soul. 426 00:37:13,441 --> 00:37:15,276 Not even Rudy. 427 00:37:17,027 --> 00:37:18,696 I mean it, Liesel. 428 00:37:20,156 --> 00:37:22,116 Not a soul. 429 00:37:22,825 --> 00:37:24,577 Understand? 430 00:37:25,870 --> 00:37:27,037 Ja. 431 00:37:27,163 --> 00:37:31,125 A person is only as good as their word, Liesel. 432 00:37:33,169 --> 00:37:34,336 Do I have yours? 433 00:37:36,213 --> 00:37:37,631 Ja, Papa. 434 00:37:38,841 --> 00:37:39,842 I promise. 435 00:38:07,495 --> 00:38:08,537 Did you talk to her? 436 00:38:08,704 --> 00:38:09,789 Ja. 437 00:38:11,290 --> 00:38:12,833 She can't tell a soul. 438 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:14,418 She knows. 439 00:38:18,839 --> 00:38:20,716 - Can we trust her? - She's our daughter. 440 00:38:20,966 --> 00:38:22,676 - She's a child! - Rosa. 441 00:38:23,093 --> 00:38:25,012 We have no choice. 442 00:38:30,100 --> 00:38:31,727 He looks like death. 443 00:38:32,353 --> 00:38:34,814 He's probably forgotten what food tastes like. 444 00:38:34,980 --> 00:38:36,207 What are we going to feed him on? 445 00:38:36,232 --> 00:38:37,833 We barely have enough to feed ourselves! 446 00:38:37,858 --> 00:38:38,901 We will make do. 447 00:38:40,110 --> 00:38:42,154 "We will make do." 448 00:38:43,405 --> 00:38:46,826 We have always known that one day this may happen. 449 00:38:56,460 --> 00:38:58,420 We could turn him in tomorrow. 450 00:39:00,005 --> 00:39:01,565 The authorities would understand. 451 00:39:01,590 --> 00:39:03,025 We could say that it was late at night... 452 00:39:03,050 --> 00:39:04,235 Rosa. 453 00:39:04,260 --> 00:39:06,303 - I know. - He came to us. 454 00:39:08,264 --> 00:39:10,558 - I owe his family everything. - I know. 455 00:39:10,850 --> 00:39:12,601 Then, that's all. 456 00:39:13,769 --> 00:39:17,398 We'll just go about things as normally as possible. 457 00:40:05,195 --> 00:40:06,238 Hello. 458 00:40:06,864 --> 00:40:08,157 Hello. 459 00:40:11,952 --> 00:40:14,079 What were you dreaming about? 460 00:40:14,622 --> 00:40:16,123 My mother. 461 00:40:18,709 --> 00:40:20,336 Is that your book? 462 00:40:21,503 --> 00:40:22,504 Ja. 463 00:40:23,422 --> 00:40:24,715 Nein, it... 464 00:40:26,342 --> 00:40:28,302 It wasn't always mine. 465 00:40:30,971 --> 00:40:32,514 Did you steal it? 466 00:40:32,932 --> 00:40:34,183 Nein. 467 00:40:35,184 --> 00:40:37,144 - Can I see it? - It's... 468 00:40:39,146 --> 00:40:40,789 It's not for children. 469 00:40:42,358 --> 00:40:43,567 Ah. 470 00:40:44,276 --> 00:40:46,111 Good morning, Max. 471 00:40:48,697 --> 00:40:49,949 You have met Liesel? 472 00:40:50,783 --> 00:40:51,784 Liesel. 473 00:40:52,743 --> 00:40:54,119 Don't worry. 474 00:40:54,870 --> 00:40:56,538 She's a good girl. 475 00:41:07,383 --> 00:41:09,343 Not a word. 476 00:41:10,135 --> 00:41:12,346 Good, Saumensch. 477 00:41:18,769 --> 00:41:20,104 What's the rush? 478 00:41:20,270 --> 00:41:21,939 I have to get home. 479 00:41:23,190 --> 00:41:24,566 Race you. 480 00:41:33,242 --> 00:41:34,994 I have to go inside. 481 00:41:35,828 --> 00:41:37,746 What do you want? My permission? 482 00:41:39,581 --> 00:41:41,058 Nein. I'm just telling you. 483 00:41:41,083 --> 00:41:42,209 Fine. 484 00:41:46,505 --> 00:41:48,048 See you, Saumensch. 485 00:41:48,382 --> 00:41:50,884 Where have you been? You're late. 486 00:41:51,051 --> 00:41:53,053 I ran as fast as I could. 487 00:41:53,595 --> 00:41:55,264 And you mentioned nothing to no one? 488 00:41:55,431 --> 00:41:57,182 - Nein, Mama. - Rosa... 489 00:42:05,190 --> 00:42:07,276 Liesel! He's asleep. 490 00:42:26,295 --> 00:42:27,421 Mmm. 491 00:42:27,546 --> 00:42:31,008 At least someone knows how to appreciate my cooking. 492 00:42:37,723 --> 00:42:40,392 I'm sorry. I'm sorry. 493 00:42:53,489 --> 00:42:55,824 Is he going to be all right? 494 00:42:56,700 --> 00:42:58,243 Of course. 495 00:43:44,873 --> 00:43:46,792 You're a curious girl. 496 00:43:48,001 --> 00:43:49,086 I didn't mean to. 497 00:43:51,088 --> 00:43:52,756 It's all right. 498 00:44:03,100 --> 00:44:04,226 What is it about? 499 00:44:05,894 --> 00:44:06,895 Hitler. 500 00:44:08,397 --> 00:44:10,149 Are you hiding from Hitler? 501 00:44:10,566 --> 00:44:11,608 Ja. 502 00:44:14,611 --> 00:44:15,904 Are you a communist? 503 00:44:17,281 --> 00:44:18,365 I'm a Jew. 504 00:44:20,075 --> 00:44:21,869 Did he take away your mother? 505 00:44:22,619 --> 00:44:24,079 Probably. 506 00:44:33,672 --> 00:44:35,132 Don't worry. 507 00:44:35,591 --> 00:44:38,051 I cried a lot when I first came, too. 508 00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:43,932 The soup is terrible, isn't it? 509 00:44:46,018 --> 00:44:48,729 You may find this hard to believe, but... 510 00:44:49,855 --> 00:44:51,416 it's the best thing I've ever thrown up. 511 00:45:10,167 --> 00:45:11,501 Liesel! 512 00:45:12,044 --> 00:45:14,171 I have a job for you. 513 00:45:23,055 --> 00:45:25,432 And don't forget to count the money. 514 00:45:27,351 --> 00:45:28,619 Come back with the right amount 515 00:45:28,644 --> 00:45:30,938 or don't bother coming back at all. 516 00:45:56,546 --> 00:45:58,757 The Bürgermeister's house. 517 00:46:00,050 --> 00:46:02,010 Are you sure? 518 00:46:02,719 --> 00:46:05,847 Do you see any other houses looking like this? 519 00:46:07,349 --> 00:46:10,519 He had dinner with the Fuhrer once. 520 00:47:01,069 --> 00:47:02,404 Laundry. 521 00:47:03,238 --> 00:47:04,239 Come in. 522 00:47:08,535 --> 00:47:09,578 Go on. 523 00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:46,656 Wait. 524 00:48:08,136 --> 00:48:09,262 Danke schön. 525 00:48:17,687 --> 00:48:18,897 So, you like books? 526 00:48:34,037 --> 00:48:35,122 Come. 527 00:49:46,026 --> 00:49:48,236 "The Dream Carrier." 528 00:50:11,051 --> 00:50:12,302 Rudy. 529 00:50:14,930 --> 00:50:15,972 I have to go. 530 00:50:19,893 --> 00:50:22,771 You can come back whenever you want. 531 00:50:22,938 --> 00:50:24,773 It will be here. 532 00:50:27,609 --> 00:50:29,236 Ja, Frau Hermann. 533 00:50:32,489 --> 00:50:34,616 Call me "Ilsa." 534 00:50:34,783 --> 00:50:36,618 What shall I call you? 535 00:50:38,203 --> 00:50:39,204 Liesel. 536 00:50:43,458 --> 00:50:45,627 You are a brave girl, Liesel. 537 00:50:59,266 --> 00:51:00,642 Come back, Saumensch! 538 00:51:00,976 --> 00:51:02,310 Catch me! 539 00:51:04,145 --> 00:51:06,261 Hey, Dummkopf! Did you hear? 540 00:51:06,286 --> 00:51:08,716 England declared war on us! We're at war with England! 541 00:51:13,071 --> 00:51:14,489 We're at war! 542 00:51:15,657 --> 00:51:17,509 England declared war! 543 00:51:17,534 --> 00:51:23,832 It's always been the same, the excitement and rush to war. 544 00:51:23,999 --> 00:51:26,501 I've met so many young men over the years... 545 00:51:26,668 --> 00:51:29,671 who have thought they were running at their enemy. 546 00:51:29,838 --> 00:51:33,508 When the truth was, they were running to me. 547 00:51:47,397 --> 00:51:48,523 Ja! 548 00:51:50,525 --> 00:51:51,526 Excellent. 549 00:52:02,370 --> 00:52:04,748 You should look where you're going next time. 550 00:52:06,666 --> 00:52:08,126 Drop dead, Franz. 551 00:52:09,711 --> 00:52:13,006 What's up, Jesse Owens? I thought you liked being black. 552 00:52:36,363 --> 00:52:37,739 Who is Johann? 553 00:52:40,909 --> 00:52:43,787 He used to love to read. 554 00:52:45,246 --> 00:52:47,666 And he was brave. Just like you. 555 00:52:50,418 --> 00:52:53,088 This is all him. Everything he knew. 556 00:52:54,089 --> 00:52:55,382 All here. 557 00:52:56,216 --> 00:52:57,342 All in its place. 558 00:53:09,938 --> 00:53:11,648 They never found his body. 559 00:53:14,567 --> 00:53:18,113 If they could have shown me his body, I would have believed them. 560 00:53:18,613 --> 00:53:20,824 But how can a mother give up? 561 00:53:22,617 --> 00:53:25,620 A mother never gives up on her child. 562 00:53:30,291 --> 00:53:32,085 I have to go. 563 00:53:53,940 --> 00:53:56,151 Do you think my mother really loved me? 564 00:53:57,652 --> 00:53:59,362 Of course. 565 00:54:01,698 --> 00:54:04,033 Every mother loves her child. 566 00:54:05,702 --> 00:54:07,454 Even Hitler's. 567 00:54:12,292 --> 00:54:15,211 Do you think she writes to him? 568 00:54:25,430 --> 00:54:26,514 "Dear Führer..." 569 00:54:28,641 --> 00:54:31,394 "just wait until your father gets home." 570 00:54:31,561 --> 00:54:33,354 "Love, Mama." 571 00:54:34,022 --> 00:54:36,483 "Dear Führer, clean up your mess." 572 00:54:36,691 --> 00:54:38,860 "Dear Führer, who cut your hair?" 573 00:54:39,110 --> 00:54:40,904 "You're not going out in that, are you?" 574 00:54:41,696 --> 00:54:43,198 "What's that growing on your lip?" 575 00:54:43,364 --> 00:54:45,158 "Don't raise your voice at me." 576 00:54:45,408 --> 00:54:48,203 "Stop spitting when you yell." 577 00:55:00,381 --> 00:55:01,549 Hans... 578 00:55:02,550 --> 00:55:04,052 he's getting bedsores. 579 00:55:04,886 --> 00:55:06,971 Then he needs to get up and move about. 580 00:55:07,931 --> 00:55:10,058 He can't just walk around. 581 00:55:10,225 --> 00:55:11,226 Why not? 582 00:55:11,392 --> 00:55:13,102 Because people will see in. 583 00:55:15,939 --> 00:55:19,234 He can't lay still forever. He needs to be moved. 584 00:55:20,735 --> 00:55:21,736 Why? 585 00:55:22,695 --> 00:55:25,073 The mouth on it! Because I say so. 586 00:55:25,240 --> 00:55:26,241 Rosa. 587 00:55:26,407 --> 00:55:27,909 And what do you propose? 588 00:55:28,368 --> 00:55:30,745 "Propose"? Listen to this one. 589 00:55:31,204 --> 00:55:33,581 I propose that we put him downstairs. 590 00:55:42,507 --> 00:55:44,634 It's not good, we know that. 591 00:55:47,595 --> 00:55:48,596 I'm sorry. 592 00:55:48,763 --> 00:55:52,433 Please don't apologize. I've put you all in such danger. 593 00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:53,935 It's more than I deserve. 594 00:55:54,811 --> 00:55:57,438 Liesel's lessons. It is a dictionary. 595 00:55:58,106 --> 00:56:00,400 I tried to make it as comfortable as I could. 596 00:56:05,780 --> 00:56:07,240 I'm sorry, there's no bed. 597 00:56:08,783 --> 00:56:10,827 If anyone saw, you know? 598 00:56:11,494 --> 00:56:14,163 You feel free to do your lessons whenever you want. 599 00:56:14,330 --> 00:56:16,541 Make sure you knock first. 600 00:56:19,294 --> 00:56:21,296 I'm just downstairs. I'm not going anywhere. 601 00:56:22,463 --> 00:56:23,673 Promise. 602 00:56:49,616 --> 00:56:51,034 Don't give me that look. 603 00:57:04,756 --> 00:57:06,341 "Jellyfish." 604 00:57:07,008 --> 00:57:08,509 "Jellyfish." 605 00:57:08,635 --> 00:57:09,636 Jellyfish. 606 00:57:20,605 --> 00:57:23,399 Tell me, where do you get these words? 607 00:57:26,861 --> 00:57:28,154 It's a secret. 608 00:57:29,906 --> 00:57:31,741 And who would I tell? 609 00:57:35,870 --> 00:57:38,206 The Bürgermeister's wife. 610 00:57:39,207 --> 00:57:41,417 She lets me read her books. 611 00:57:41,960 --> 00:57:43,795 I memorize them. 612 00:57:45,630 --> 00:57:48,341 "Memory is the scribe of the soul." 613 00:57:49,759 --> 00:57:51,010 Do you know who said that? 614 00:57:53,429 --> 00:57:55,974 A man called Aristotle. 615 00:57:57,558 --> 00:57:59,227 Can you do me a favor? 616 00:57:59,769 --> 00:58:02,188 Can you describe the day for me? 617 00:58:04,649 --> 00:58:06,818 What's it like outside? 618 00:58:07,443 --> 00:58:08,569 It's cloudy. 619 00:58:08,695 --> 00:58:09,821 No, no, no. 620 00:58:10,238 --> 00:58:12,115 Make the words yours. 621 00:58:14,492 --> 00:58:16,577 If your eyes could speak... 622 00:58:17,245 --> 00:58:18,746 what would they say? 623 00:58:22,500 --> 00:58:25,586 It's a pale day. 624 00:58:25,920 --> 00:58:28,256 "Pale." Good. Go on. 625 00:58:31,926 --> 00:58:35,096 Everything's stuck behind a cloud. 626 00:58:36,097 --> 00:58:38,433 Und the sun... 627 00:58:39,017 --> 00:58:40,727 doesn't look like the sun. 628 00:58:41,394 --> 00:58:42,979 What does it look like? 629 00:58:46,065 --> 00:58:49,485 Like a silver oyster? 630 00:58:58,119 --> 00:59:00,455 Thank you. I saw that. 631 00:59:48,044 --> 00:59:49,837 We're hiding a Jew. 632 00:59:50,088 --> 00:59:52,173 Johann? 633 00:59:53,758 --> 00:59:54,967 Nein. 634 00:59:56,719 --> 00:59:58,012 It's Liesel. 635 01:00:05,895 --> 01:00:07,980 What's the meaning of this? 636 01:00:24,956 --> 01:00:27,375 Und he didn't say why? 637 01:00:30,336 --> 01:00:32,130 I don't understand it. 638 01:00:32,296 --> 01:00:35,383 I've always ironed his shirts in exactly the same way. 639 01:00:35,550 --> 01:00:37,593 Maybe they can't afford it any longer. 640 01:00:37,760 --> 01:00:39,303 They can't afford it? 641 01:00:40,221 --> 01:00:41,722 We can't afford it. 642 01:00:45,768 --> 01:00:47,562 It's another customer gone. 643 01:00:47,728 --> 01:00:49,247 And four mouths to feed. 644 01:00:55,653 --> 01:00:56,821 Well. 645 01:00:57,613 --> 01:01:01,325 It's two meals a day from now on, not three. 646 01:01:02,160 --> 01:01:03,578 That's all there is to it. 647 01:01:32,148 --> 01:01:33,524 I've made you a suit. 648 01:01:35,902 --> 01:01:40,031 I want you to wear it on your 14th birthday. 649 01:01:41,199 --> 01:01:43,618 You'll be back then, Papa. 650 01:01:43,784 --> 01:01:45,411 Won't you? 651 01:02:55,022 --> 01:02:56,148 Hans! 652 01:02:56,941 --> 01:02:57,942 Rosa... 653 01:02:58,150 --> 01:03:00,152 I'm asking you, I'm begging you... 654 01:03:00,319 --> 01:03:04,699 would you please keep your mouth shut for five minutes? 655 01:03:10,871 --> 01:03:12,498 I brought you something. 656 01:03:12,665 --> 01:03:14,542 - Is this today's? - Ja. 657 01:03:14,709 --> 01:03:16,877 A gift from Franz Deutscher. 658 01:03:17,044 --> 01:03:19,880 That boy doesn't know how generous he is. 659 01:03:21,007 --> 01:03:23,301 "Hitler poised to take Moscow." 660 01:03:27,680 --> 01:03:29,765 The world has turned mad. 661 01:03:31,392 --> 01:03:32,685 But... 662 01:03:33,227 --> 01:03:34,729 aren't we winning the war? 663 01:03:40,234 --> 01:03:41,277 Max? 664 01:03:48,909 --> 01:03:50,911 Where's my weather report? 665 01:04:05,551 --> 01:04:07,094 You're full of wonders. 666 01:04:09,096 --> 01:04:10,348 I've got an idea. 667 01:04:53,724 --> 01:04:55,976 What on earth are you doing? 668 01:05:04,443 --> 01:05:05,861 Go, go, go! 669 01:05:19,834 --> 01:05:20,835 Max. 670 01:05:25,089 --> 01:05:26,257 I have no more snow! 671 01:05:26,674 --> 01:05:28,134 Get him, Max! 672 01:05:28,300 --> 01:05:31,303 What in God's name are you Saukerle doing down here? 673 01:05:31,429 --> 01:05:32,430 Rosa! 674 01:05:36,642 --> 01:05:39,770 There's a madwoman on the battlefield! Nein, nein! 675 01:05:40,688 --> 01:05:42,273 I'm unarmed! 676 01:06:01,375 --> 01:06:04,837 This is the stupidest thing that I have ever done. 677 01:06:05,004 --> 01:06:07,047 Und look how happy you are. 678 01:06:14,138 --> 01:06:15,639 What do we do when it melts? 679 01:06:15,806 --> 01:06:17,224 You mop it up, Saumensch. 680 01:06:17,391 --> 01:06:19,894 It won't melt. It's freezing down here. 681 01:06:20,895 --> 01:06:23,397 I don't know how you do it every night. 682 01:06:23,564 --> 01:06:25,191 Please, don't think about me. 683 01:06:25,357 --> 01:06:27,318 Nonsense. We all think about you. 684 01:06:30,404 --> 01:06:32,740 This is the best Christmas. 685 01:06:34,825 --> 01:06:36,702 This is my first Christmas. 686 01:06:37,536 --> 01:06:40,789 Now you know what you've been missing out on. 687 01:06:41,582 --> 01:06:43,083 We should call it a night. 688 01:06:43,250 --> 01:06:45,252 Nein, Papa. Please. 689 01:06:45,419 --> 01:06:46,545 Listen to your father. 690 01:06:47,213 --> 01:06:48,672 You can stay a little longer. 691 01:06:48,839 --> 01:06:51,050 Oh, you're too soft on that girl. 692 01:06:59,266 --> 01:07:01,018 I've made you a Christmas gift. 693 01:07:04,063 --> 01:07:05,564 It's all I had. 694 01:07:21,413 --> 01:07:22,456 But... 695 01:07:22,581 --> 01:07:23,582 Open it. 696 01:07:27,127 --> 01:07:28,128 "For Liesel... 697 01:07:28,796 --> 01:07:30,422 from Max." 698 01:07:34,134 --> 01:07:35,844 What does it say? 699 01:07:40,474 --> 01:07:41,892 "Write." 700 01:07:45,145 --> 01:07:46,814 In my religion... 701 01:07:46,981 --> 01:07:50,067 we're taught that every living thing... 702 01:07:50,609 --> 01:07:52,903 every leaf, every bird... 703 01:07:53,070 --> 01:07:57,116 is only alive because it contains the secret word for life. 704 01:07:59,493 --> 01:08:03,831 That's the only difference between us and a lump of clay. A word. 705 01:08:06,625 --> 01:08:08,836 Words are life, Liesel. 706 01:08:10,671 --> 01:08:12,464 All those blank pages... 707 01:08:13,090 --> 01:08:14,341 they're for you to fill. 708 01:08:45,205 --> 01:08:46,874 My God. 709 01:08:51,295 --> 01:08:52,838 Is he going to die? 710 01:08:53,005 --> 01:08:54,340 Shut up! 711 01:08:54,506 --> 01:08:57,384 I won't have that talk in this house. Do you understand? 712 01:08:57,843 --> 01:09:01,221 I haven't starved us all for the better part of two years... 713 01:09:01,388 --> 01:09:04,058 just so that he could die. 714 01:09:06,518 --> 01:09:07,686 It's my fault. 715 01:09:08,312 --> 01:09:10,022 Why is it your fault? 716 01:09:10,481 --> 01:09:12,983 It was my idea to build that snowman. 717 01:09:14,068 --> 01:09:15,861 Why did we build it? 718 01:09:17,321 --> 01:09:19,406 Because we had to. 719 01:09:24,203 --> 01:09:27,373 You said you weren't going anywhere, Max. 720 01:09:27,873 --> 01:09:29,750 You promised. 721 01:09:51,271 --> 01:09:53,857 "The Invisible Man..." 722 01:09:54,024 --> 01:09:56,276 "by H.G. Wells." 723 01:10:01,949 --> 01:10:04,743 "The stranger came early in February..." 724 01:10:05,452 --> 01:10:06,787 "one wintry day..." 725 01:10:07,287 --> 01:10:10,833 "through a biting wind and a driving snow." 726 01:10:11,417 --> 01:10:13,210 "The last snowfall..." 727 01:10:14,461 --> 01:10:17,297 "And none other will know of them..." 728 01:10:18,132 --> 01:10:19,633 "until he dies." 729 01:10:21,468 --> 01:10:22,803 "The End." 730 01:10:24,388 --> 01:10:25,973 Max? 731 01:10:34,648 --> 01:10:36,483 "Chapter One." 732 01:11:40,714 --> 01:11:41,715 Ilsa? 733 01:12:05,239 --> 01:12:08,700 "The eyes in the faces he passed on the street..." 734 01:12:08,867 --> 01:12:12,579 "seemed to look inside him and finger his guilt." 735 01:12:13,080 --> 01:12:15,165 "But things were out of his control." 736 01:12:16,166 --> 01:12:17,918 "He had cut himself loose..." 737 01:12:18,252 --> 01:12:23,507 "and was drifting faster and faster towards his fate." 738 01:12:25,926 --> 01:12:28,345 "...was the dustiness of the floor..." 739 01:12:28,512 --> 01:12:33,559 "the feeling that the clothes were more next to her than on her..." 740 01:12:34,184 --> 01:12:39,231 "and the sudden realization that this would all be for nothing." 741 01:12:42,943 --> 01:12:44,945 - Did you lose something? - Rudy! 742 01:12:45,946 --> 01:12:47,197 What are you doing? 743 01:12:47,447 --> 01:12:49,408 Spying on you, obviously. 744 01:12:49,700 --> 01:12:51,076 Give me that! 745 01:12:52,202 --> 01:12:56,248 So, let me guess. You forgot where the front door was. 746 01:12:57,249 --> 01:13:00,460 I've got to hand it to you, Saumensch, you've got guts... 747 01:13:00,794 --> 01:13:02,629 stealing from the Bürgermeister. 748 01:13:02,796 --> 01:13:04,298 Keep it down. 749 01:13:04,464 --> 01:13:06,925 I'm not stealing. I'm borrowing. 750 01:13:07,426 --> 01:13:08,735 Whatever you are "borrowing"... 751 01:13:08,760 --> 01:13:10,262 I just wish you let me in on it. 752 01:13:10,429 --> 01:13:11,722 It's not what you think. 753 01:13:11,847 --> 01:13:13,140 Then... 754 01:13:13,307 --> 01:13:14,641 What is it? 755 01:13:16,268 --> 01:13:17,978 I'm borrowing books. That's all. 756 01:13:18,312 --> 01:13:20,606 Books? Are you nuts? 757 01:13:20,772 --> 01:13:22,941 We are starving out here and you're stealing books? 758 01:13:23,108 --> 01:13:24,318 Stop using that word. 759 01:13:24,818 --> 01:13:28,155 How about food? Did you ever even think of looking in the kitchen? 760 01:13:28,280 --> 01:13:29,281 Nein. 761 01:13:29,573 --> 01:13:31,658 We could have planned this better if you told me. 762 01:13:32,618 --> 01:13:34,828 I'm sorry. I couldn't. 763 01:13:34,995 --> 01:13:38,707 You know, for a best friend, you keep a lot to yourself. 764 01:13:42,252 --> 01:13:43,837 What's that supposed to mean? 765 01:13:44,755 --> 01:13:46,089 Who's Max? 766 01:13:48,342 --> 01:13:49,426 Who is he? 767 01:13:50,344 --> 01:13:51,428 Liesel! 768 01:13:56,183 --> 01:13:58,143 Tell me what's going on! 769 01:13:58,685 --> 01:14:01,688 Tell me, Saumensch, who is he? 770 01:14:03,357 --> 01:14:05,484 Is he your boyfriend? 771 01:14:05,776 --> 01:14:07,152 What? 772 01:14:08,111 --> 01:14:09,363 Is that what you think? 773 01:14:09,696 --> 01:14:11,073 Then what? 774 01:14:11,490 --> 01:14:12,866 Tell me, who is he? 775 01:14:13,158 --> 01:14:14,701 I can't. 776 01:14:14,868 --> 01:14:16,119 Why not? 777 01:14:18,872 --> 01:14:20,040 It's a secret. 778 01:14:20,874 --> 01:14:22,209 You don't trust me? 779 01:14:22,793 --> 01:14:25,212 It's not like that, Rudy. I can't. 780 01:14:26,380 --> 01:14:27,881 If I... 781 01:14:28,548 --> 01:14:32,302 If I told you, I'd have to go away. 782 01:14:33,303 --> 01:14:35,889 Papa would have to go away. 783 01:14:37,307 --> 01:14:39,726 God knows what would happen to him. 784 01:14:40,727 --> 01:14:42,145 "Him"? 785 01:14:43,730 --> 01:14:45,774 You're hiding someone? 786 01:14:47,401 --> 01:14:50,153 You're hiding someone, aren't you? 787 01:14:50,570 --> 01:14:51,738 Liesel! 788 01:14:54,992 --> 01:14:57,119 One spit, "Yes." Two spits, "No." 789 01:15:04,459 --> 01:15:05,460 I knew it. 790 01:15:06,753 --> 01:15:08,839 No one can know, Rudy. 791 01:15:09,339 --> 01:15:10,507 I mean it. 792 01:15:10,674 --> 01:15:12,342 You can trust me. 793 01:15:13,385 --> 01:15:14,928 Don't worry. 794 01:15:15,429 --> 01:15:17,180 I won't tell anybody. 795 01:15:17,514 --> 01:15:19,307 You won't tell anyone what? 796 01:15:21,601 --> 01:15:24,187 Hello, Steiner. Hello, Dummkopf. 797 01:15:26,940 --> 01:15:28,608 What's that behind your back? 798 01:15:29,026 --> 01:15:30,277 Give it to me. 799 01:15:31,695 --> 01:15:32,863 Leave him alone! 800 01:15:32,988 --> 01:15:34,156 I said, give it to me! 801 01:15:36,616 --> 01:15:37,743 Give it to me! 802 01:15:40,954 --> 01:15:43,290 What was that? What was it? 803 01:15:43,457 --> 01:15:45,625 None of your business, Deutscher. 804 01:15:49,463 --> 01:15:50,505 Leave him! 805 01:15:56,136 --> 01:15:57,554 You're done for, Steiner. 806 01:15:59,306 --> 01:16:00,348 I'm reporting you. 807 01:16:00,474 --> 01:16:03,268 For what? Having a diary? 808 01:16:03,935 --> 01:16:06,188 I know you're up to something. 809 01:16:14,446 --> 01:16:15,614 Come on! 810 01:16:23,663 --> 01:16:24,831 Come on! 811 01:16:27,334 --> 01:16:28,668 What are you doing? 812 01:16:28,835 --> 01:16:31,671 I know where it is! I watched it! 813 01:16:33,173 --> 01:16:35,509 It's freezing, Rudy. You'll die in there. 814 01:16:38,762 --> 01:16:39,971 Rudy! 815 01:16:44,351 --> 01:16:45,477 Rudy? 816 01:16:48,105 --> 01:16:49,189 Rudy! 817 01:16:51,191 --> 01:16:52,359 Rudy? 818 01:16:54,111 --> 01:16:56,113 Rudy, I can't swim! 819 01:16:57,030 --> 01:16:58,281 Rudy! 820 01:16:59,199 --> 01:17:00,450 Please! 821 01:17:03,870 --> 01:17:05,247 I got it! 822 01:17:06,456 --> 01:17:07,541 Rudy! 823 01:17:08,208 --> 01:17:09,709 I thought you were... 824 01:17:10,544 --> 01:17:11,545 Never mind. 825 01:17:12,212 --> 01:17:13,797 Trust me now? 826 01:17:15,006 --> 01:17:16,049 Ja. 827 01:17:16,216 --> 01:17:18,844 Then, how about that kiss? 828 01:17:19,010 --> 01:17:21,388 Come on. You're going to freeze. 829 01:17:38,238 --> 01:17:39,865 Good night... 830 01:17:40,031 --> 01:17:41,658 book thief. 831 01:17:46,371 --> 01:17:47,789 Good night, fish. 832 01:18:08,727 --> 01:18:10,520 I told Rudy. 833 01:18:15,025 --> 01:18:16,902 Here, come on! I'm here! 834 01:18:31,249 --> 01:18:32,542 Look! 835 01:18:35,795 --> 01:18:37,088 What are they doing? 836 01:18:37,380 --> 01:18:40,300 Checking basements. They checked my cousin's last night. 837 01:18:42,010 --> 01:18:43,011 For what? 838 01:18:44,596 --> 01:18:46,556 Can we get on with it now? 839 01:18:46,973 --> 01:18:48,225 Come on! 840 01:18:49,392 --> 01:18:51,102 Here! Pass it! 841 01:18:54,648 --> 01:18:55,649 Are you nuts? 842 01:19:04,157 --> 01:19:05,158 I have to go inside. 843 01:19:05,492 --> 01:19:06,660 Oh, great. 844 01:19:06,826 --> 01:19:07,827 She's hurt. 845 01:19:08,161 --> 01:19:09,287 Never stopped her before. 846 01:19:09,955 --> 01:19:11,081 I'm fine. 847 01:19:19,589 --> 01:19:21,508 Mama! Why are you shouting? 848 01:19:21,675 --> 01:19:22,676 They're coming. 849 01:19:22,842 --> 01:19:23,843 Who? 850 01:19:24,010 --> 01:19:25,512 They're checking basements. 851 01:19:33,311 --> 01:19:34,688 Hans, come quickly! 852 01:19:35,647 --> 01:19:36,847 "What is it? "Somebody is coming. 853 01:19:36,856 --> 01:19:38,608 They are checking basements. 854 01:19:40,151 --> 01:19:41,820 We have to hide him. 855 01:19:41,987 --> 01:19:44,030 Get him up here, under the bed. 856 01:19:47,367 --> 01:19:49,135 Max! 857 01:19:49,160 --> 01:19:50,203 Max! 858 01:19:51,371 --> 01:19:52,664 Come on. Come on. 859 01:19:52,956 --> 01:19:56,001 So, do they give you a gun when you join the army? 860 01:19:56,459 --> 01:19:57,460 Mama! 861 01:19:59,504 --> 01:20:00,714 Oh, my God. 862 01:20:01,464 --> 01:20:03,216 Hans, leave that! 863 01:20:10,390 --> 01:20:13,560 Wolfy. What a surprise. How are you? 864 01:20:14,728 --> 01:20:16,229 You want Hans? 865 01:20:16,396 --> 01:20:17,522 Hans! 866 01:20:17,689 --> 01:20:20,233 Nein, nein, nein. We're just checking people's basements. 867 01:20:20,400 --> 01:20:21,901 Oh, Liesel, will you get Herr Edel... 868 01:20:22,068 --> 01:20:23,903 - a glass of water? - No need. 869 01:20:24,070 --> 01:20:25,322 This shouldn't take a second. 870 01:20:29,034 --> 01:20:30,201 You should bandage that. 871 01:20:30,368 --> 01:20:33,079 Oh, my God, Liesel! Ja! Oh, would you do me a favor... 872 01:20:33,246 --> 01:20:35,832 and get me the medicine chest? It's just on that... 873 01:20:35,999 --> 01:20:37,167 Where is the man trap? 874 01:20:38,251 --> 01:20:39,502 The what? 875 01:20:39,627 --> 01:20:40,837 The door to your basement. 876 01:20:43,590 --> 01:20:44,649 Ah! 877 01:20:44,674 --> 01:20:46,176 Wolfa. 878 01:20:46,343 --> 01:20:48,504 I heard you were coming. I've been working, tidying up. 879 01:20:50,430 --> 01:20:51,723 Heard from who? 880 01:20:53,099 --> 01:20:54,893 Who was it collecting our washing? 881 01:20:55,268 --> 01:20:56,269 Frau Schneider. 882 01:20:56,436 --> 01:20:59,105 Frau Schneider, ja. She mentioned it. 883 01:20:59,272 --> 01:21:00,315 Come. 884 01:21:12,035 --> 01:21:13,411 Is there a light in here? 885 01:21:13,578 --> 01:21:15,121 Ja, of course. 886 01:21:15,622 --> 01:21:18,375 I should probably throw most of this stuff out. 887 01:21:18,958 --> 01:21:21,961 You wouldn't believe what we find in some people's basements. 888 01:21:22,128 --> 01:21:24,089 Oh, it wouldn't surprise me. 889 01:21:24,756 --> 01:21:26,900 Liesel, she is always playing down here. 890 01:21:26,925 --> 01:21:29,511 I keep telling her to get out in the fresh air. 891 01:21:35,892 --> 01:21:38,144 What is this about, anyway? 892 01:21:57,330 --> 01:21:58,331 What's this? 893 01:22:06,840 --> 01:22:07,924 My brushes. 894 01:22:12,095 --> 01:22:14,097 You should look after them better. 895 01:22:14,764 --> 01:22:17,325 Liesel, you know, she never listens to me. 896 01:22:23,481 --> 01:22:25,942 Still no work, eh, Hans? 897 01:22:26,443 --> 01:22:27,902 Not a lot. 898 01:22:29,446 --> 01:22:32,824 You should have taken my advice and joined the party. 899 01:22:33,324 --> 01:22:35,034 Then your wife wouldn't have to break her back... 900 01:22:35,201 --> 01:22:37,829 washing people's underwear to feed you. 901 01:22:40,039 --> 01:22:42,041 Isn't that right, Rosa? 902 01:22:43,042 --> 01:22:44,335 Ja. 903 01:22:45,962 --> 01:22:47,714 What's wrong with you? 904 01:22:49,674 --> 01:22:51,718 I've never heard you turn down an opportunity... 905 01:22:51,885 --> 01:22:53,470 to give this one some lip. 906 01:22:55,180 --> 01:22:56,222 Well... 907 01:22:56,890 --> 01:23:01,561 if the Saukerl would get off his lazy backside and help... 908 01:23:02,061 --> 01:23:03,705 then maybe I would have the energy 909 01:23:03,730 --> 01:23:06,191 to give him all the lip that he deserves. 910 01:23:12,739 --> 01:23:14,741 I don't know how you live with her. 911 01:23:15,325 --> 01:23:16,576 Neither do I. 912 01:23:22,665 --> 01:23:24,834 Never too late to join, Hans. 913 01:23:31,090 --> 01:23:33,092 So, how's our basement? 914 01:23:33,259 --> 01:23:35,678 Perfectly useless. The ceiling is too low. 915 01:23:35,845 --> 01:23:37,055 What for? 916 01:23:37,222 --> 01:23:39,933 Air raid shelters. Every street has to have one. 917 01:23:40,266 --> 01:23:41,559 You should be more careful. 918 01:23:41,684 --> 01:23:43,019 Ja, Herr Edel. 919 01:23:53,863 --> 01:23:55,406 Hans... 920 01:23:58,243 --> 01:24:00,954 What if he does die? 921 01:24:03,414 --> 01:24:06,417 We can't just leave him there. 922 01:24:10,255 --> 01:24:13,049 The smell will give us away. 923 01:24:17,053 --> 01:24:19,472 Hans, I'm afraid. 924 01:24:21,808 --> 01:24:23,935 Look, if it happens... 925 01:24:24,644 --> 01:24:26,771 if he dies... 926 01:24:28,731 --> 01:24:31,150 we'll simply have to find a way. 927 01:24:33,319 --> 01:24:35,113 He's not dead yet. 928 01:24:40,201 --> 01:24:41,703 All right? 929 01:24:59,971 --> 01:25:01,347 Frau Hubermann? 930 01:25:01,514 --> 01:25:03,391 I need to speak to Liesel. 931 01:25:04,392 --> 01:25:06,561 Of course. Liesel? 932 01:25:12,108 --> 01:25:13,209 Ow! 933 01:25:13,234 --> 01:25:14,986 What did you do with it, you little thief? 934 01:25:15,153 --> 01:25:16,170 What, Mama? 935 01:25:16,195 --> 01:25:17,363 Don't "what" me. 936 01:25:17,572 --> 01:25:19,173 I have told you a hundred times 937 01:25:19,198 --> 01:25:21,242 to leave that thing alone, but do you listen? 938 01:25:27,123 --> 01:25:28,166 Back to work. 939 01:25:33,379 --> 01:25:34,714 I'm sorry. 940 01:25:35,465 --> 01:25:37,383 Mama, what is it? 941 01:25:40,136 --> 01:25:41,554 It's Max, isn't it? 942 01:25:49,395 --> 01:25:51,773 He said that this belongs to you. 943 01:25:55,318 --> 01:25:56,569 Who said? 944 01:25:58,738 --> 01:26:00,573 He woke up. 945 01:26:00,740 --> 01:26:01,741 He's going to live! 946 01:26:01,908 --> 01:26:02,950 Mama! 947 01:26:08,748 --> 01:26:09,749 Careful. 948 01:26:12,877 --> 01:26:14,921 I'm sorry if I hurt you. 949 01:26:15,463 --> 01:26:18,091 I couldn't think of any other way to tell you. 950 01:26:18,257 --> 01:26:20,259 I know it's silly of me. I know. 951 01:26:20,426 --> 01:26:22,345 Nein, Mama, it's not. 952 01:26:22,512 --> 01:26:23,554 Thank you. 953 01:26:24,347 --> 01:26:27,225 Well, you'd better wipe that smile off your face. 954 01:26:28,434 --> 01:26:30,728 Just go back in there... 955 01:26:30,895 --> 01:26:34,565 and act like I'm the witch, you know? Ja? 956 01:26:35,066 --> 01:26:36,484 Ja. 957 01:26:37,193 --> 01:26:39,946 Just know that... 958 01:26:42,365 --> 01:26:43,950 that I... 959 01:26:46,911 --> 01:26:48,037 Go on. 960 01:26:52,125 --> 01:26:54,335 Do you need a bit of help with that smile? 961 01:27:02,385 --> 01:27:03,845 If I ever catch you... 962 01:27:04,011 --> 01:27:05,513 doing that sort of thing again, so help me... 963 01:27:05,680 --> 01:27:07,056 I will string you up by your toes. 964 01:27:07,223 --> 01:27:09,350 Do you hear me, Saumensch? 965 01:27:09,517 --> 01:27:10,810 Understood? 966 01:27:36,919 --> 01:27:38,171 Max! 967 01:27:38,337 --> 01:27:39,422 Max! 968 01:27:46,679 --> 01:27:47,722 I knew you'd live. 969 01:27:48,097 --> 01:27:50,558 With all that reading, you wouldn't leave me in peace. 970 01:27:51,601 --> 01:27:52,727 You heard me? 971 01:27:52,894 --> 01:27:54,061 Of course. 972 01:27:55,271 --> 01:27:56,272 Thank you. 973 01:28:06,949 --> 01:28:08,201 So... 974 01:28:11,162 --> 01:28:12,789 How's Rudy? 975 01:28:17,919 --> 01:28:19,337 I don't know. 976 01:28:19,504 --> 01:28:21,714 Rudy's a pain in the neck. 977 01:28:25,426 --> 01:28:29,514 The only thing worse than a boy you hate is a boy you like, right? 978 01:28:33,434 --> 01:28:35,269 Liesel, it's an air raid! 979 01:28:38,731 --> 01:28:39,732 Go on, then. 980 01:28:40,149 --> 01:28:41,692 What about you? 981 01:28:41,859 --> 01:28:44,195 I'm here. I'll be fine. 982 01:28:44,362 --> 01:28:46,030 It's a basement, isn't it? 983 01:28:46,197 --> 01:28:47,490 Did you hear me, Saumensch? 984 01:28:47,657 --> 01:28:48,741 Ja, Mama. 985 01:30:16,621 --> 01:30:22,293 While 10,000 souls hid their heads in fear and trembled... 986 01:30:22,501 --> 01:30:26,839 one Jew thanked God for the stars that blessed his eyes. 987 01:30:54,784 --> 01:30:55,826 It's all I have. 988 01:30:55,993 --> 01:30:57,119 I'm sorry. 989 01:30:57,662 --> 01:31:00,331 I was saving it for my husband's return, but... 990 01:31:00,665 --> 01:31:02,625 Thank you. Very much. 991 01:31:17,807 --> 01:31:18,933 He's a Jew. 992 01:31:19,100 --> 01:31:20,451 They found his birth certificate. 993 01:31:20,476 --> 01:31:22,645 He's a "Lehman" with one "N", not two. 994 01:31:23,521 --> 01:31:24,689 Please! 995 01:31:26,691 --> 01:31:28,442 My son is in the army! 996 01:31:30,069 --> 01:31:31,237 He's fighting on the front! 997 01:31:32,989 --> 01:31:34,382 Please. In the car! 998 01:31:36,283 --> 01:31:37,576 Please! 999 01:31:42,164 --> 01:31:43,165 You know me. 1000 01:31:43,624 --> 01:31:44,792 Please! 1001 01:31:45,918 --> 01:31:47,795 You know me! Please! 1002 01:31:48,004 --> 01:31:49,380 I'm German! 1003 01:31:50,756 --> 01:31:51,757 Please... 1004 01:31:52,008 --> 01:31:54,593 I've known this man my whole life. We all have. 1005 01:31:54,969 --> 01:31:56,345 He's a good person. 1006 01:31:56,721 --> 01:31:57,763 What's your name? 1007 01:32:01,434 --> 01:32:03,269 Hans Hubermann. 1008 01:32:06,856 --> 01:32:08,941 - Please! He's a good man. - Get back! 1009 01:32:09,442 --> 01:32:10,443 Papa! 1010 01:32:11,610 --> 01:32:12,611 Papa! 1011 01:32:13,904 --> 01:32:14,989 Liesel! 1012 01:32:34,717 --> 01:32:35,926 Rudy! 1013 01:32:38,804 --> 01:32:39,972 Rudy. 1014 01:32:49,482 --> 01:32:50,941 Keep still. 1015 01:32:51,108 --> 01:32:53,110 What was I thinking? 1016 01:32:54,236 --> 01:32:56,280 He took my name. 1017 01:32:58,324 --> 01:33:01,093 Christ on the cross, what have I done? 1018 01:33:03,287 --> 01:33:06,457 I've ruined us! I've ruined us! 1019 01:33:07,416 --> 01:33:09,418 I'm sorry, Rosa. 1020 01:33:09,585 --> 01:33:11,462 I'm sorry. 1021 01:33:17,593 --> 01:33:19,345 I don't understand. 1022 01:33:22,473 --> 01:33:24,725 What did he do so wrong? 1023 01:33:26,811 --> 01:33:29,647 He reminded people of their humanity. 1024 01:33:31,941 --> 01:33:33,734 Can't he apologize? 1025 01:33:34,985 --> 01:33:36,445 To who? 1026 01:33:37,446 --> 01:33:38,447 Hitler? 1027 01:33:41,826 --> 01:33:43,828 Will they take him away? 1028 01:33:43,994 --> 01:33:45,037 I don't know. 1029 01:33:45,996 --> 01:33:47,289 But... 1030 01:33:48,541 --> 01:33:50,960 if they come and find me here... 1031 01:33:52,169 --> 01:33:53,838 they'll take all of you away. 1032 01:33:58,634 --> 01:34:00,386 No, Max. 1033 01:34:02,221 --> 01:34:03,848 I have to, Liesel. 1034 01:34:06,100 --> 01:34:07,268 I'm sorry. 1035 01:34:08,394 --> 01:34:09,895 But you promised. 1036 01:34:11,272 --> 01:34:13,023 It's for your own good. 1037 01:34:15,067 --> 01:34:16,402 For your family. 1038 01:34:17,695 --> 01:34:19,738 But you're my family. 1039 01:34:34,545 --> 01:34:36,755 You've kept me alive, Liesel. 1040 01:34:38,215 --> 01:34:39,550 Don't ever forget that. 1041 01:34:39,717 --> 01:34:41,068 I can't lose someone else. 1042 01:34:41,093 --> 01:34:43,262 I'm not lost to you, Liesel. 1043 01:34:43,554 --> 01:34:46,724 You'll always be able to find me in your words. 1044 01:34:47,391 --> 01:34:49,435 That's where I'll live on. 1045 01:34:55,357 --> 01:34:56,483 Max... 1046 01:34:57,818 --> 01:34:59,278 please. 1047 01:35:01,322 --> 01:35:02,781 Thank you. 1048 01:35:10,372 --> 01:35:11,582 Here. 1049 01:35:12,291 --> 01:35:15,461 It's two blankets and a pair of socks. 1050 01:35:15,794 --> 01:35:17,838 And a nice piece of cheese that I've been saving. 1051 01:35:18,005 --> 01:35:19,298 Rosa... 1052 01:35:19,632 --> 01:35:20,716 It's yours. 1053 01:36:17,773 --> 01:36:19,441 Come. Liesel. 1054 01:36:19,608 --> 01:36:21,151 Leave her. 1055 01:36:42,715 --> 01:36:43,716 Hans? 1056 01:36:45,968 --> 01:36:47,636 I'll get my coat. 1057 01:36:56,312 --> 01:36:58,230 You are Herr Steiner? 1058 01:37:02,484 --> 01:37:03,694 What? 1059 01:37:04,862 --> 01:37:07,239 I'm here to talk about your son, Rudy. 1060 01:37:07,906 --> 01:37:09,158 Rudy Steiner. 1061 01:37:10,409 --> 01:37:12,536 He lives next door. 1062 01:37:13,287 --> 01:37:14,997 What do you want with him? 1063 01:37:32,306 --> 01:37:34,725 He's been selected for elite training. 1064 01:37:35,601 --> 01:37:37,269 He starts in the summer. 1065 01:37:39,646 --> 01:37:42,191 I'm sorry, Barbra. 1066 01:37:53,369 --> 01:37:54,995 Hans Hubermann? 1067 01:38:30,197 --> 01:38:32,825 What's "conscripted"? 1068 01:39:13,782 --> 01:39:16,201 Look how you've grown. 1069 01:39:16,368 --> 01:39:18,203 I had not noticed. 1070 01:39:19,705 --> 01:39:21,039 I will miss you. 1071 01:39:21,206 --> 01:39:23,208 Everyone's leaving. 1072 01:39:23,375 --> 01:39:24,501 Even Rudy. 1073 01:39:24,668 --> 01:39:27,045 Rudy is going to be fine. 1074 01:39:27,212 --> 01:39:30,674 Look after your Mama, ja? She's not as strong as she makes out. 1075 01:39:30,841 --> 01:39:32,092 I know. 1076 01:39:32,217 --> 01:39:33,510 Good girl. 1077 01:39:44,396 --> 01:39:45,898 Papa? 1078 01:39:48,734 --> 01:39:50,152 Come home. 1079 01:40:55,842 --> 01:40:56,927 What do you think? 1080 01:41:00,264 --> 01:41:01,890 The shoes let you down. 1081 01:41:03,976 --> 01:41:05,310 And the face. 1082 01:41:06,061 --> 01:41:07,145 Coming? 1083 01:41:07,813 --> 01:41:09,314 Where are you going? 1084 01:41:10,274 --> 01:41:12,818 Isn't it obvious? I'm running away. 1085 01:41:18,448 --> 01:41:20,409 Have you thought this through? 1086 01:41:20,576 --> 01:41:21,910 Ja. 1087 01:41:22,452 --> 01:41:24,371 I don't want to die. 1088 01:41:24,538 --> 01:41:27,416 There. All thought through. 1089 01:41:29,126 --> 01:41:31,795 Rudy, where are you going to stay? 1090 01:41:31,962 --> 01:41:34,715 "You"? What about "we"? 1091 01:41:35,465 --> 01:41:37,718 I didn't think you were this serious. 1092 01:41:37,884 --> 01:41:39,011 What do you call this? 1093 01:41:40,804 --> 01:41:42,264 Packed lunch? 1094 01:41:43,056 --> 01:41:46,226 Is there anything in there besides your soccer ball? 1095 01:41:53,442 --> 01:41:55,444 I miss my dad. 1096 01:42:00,407 --> 01:42:02,951 I don't even know if he's alive. 1097 01:42:08,415 --> 01:42:10,334 I'm not ready. 1098 01:42:11,460 --> 01:42:14,421 I want to grow up before I die. 1099 01:42:16,757 --> 01:42:18,050 So did my brother. 1100 01:42:21,511 --> 01:42:22,721 I'm sorry. 1101 01:42:25,932 --> 01:42:27,684 I didn't ask for this. 1102 01:42:27,851 --> 01:42:29,394 Who would? 1103 01:42:32,064 --> 01:42:34,232 I hate Hitler. 1104 01:42:34,608 --> 01:42:35,817 Me, too. 1105 01:42:39,154 --> 01:42:41,156 I hate Hitler! 1106 01:42:42,991 --> 01:42:44,409 I hate Hitler! 1107 01:42:44,576 --> 01:42:46,286 I hate Hitler! 1108 01:42:46,536 --> 01:42:49,081 I hate Hitler! Hitler is a monkey's ass! 1109 01:42:49,289 --> 01:42:50,749 Stick you, Hitler! 1110 01:43:02,594 --> 01:43:04,429 You're all I've got, Rudy. 1111 01:43:09,351 --> 01:43:10,560 Let's go home. 1112 01:43:56,231 --> 01:43:58,275 The bombs were coming thicker now. 1113 01:43:59,860 --> 01:44:01,153 It's probably fair to say... 1114 01:44:01,319 --> 01:44:05,699 that no one was able to serve the Führer as loyally as me. 1115 01:44:47,199 --> 01:44:50,660 There once was a ghost of a boy... 1116 01:44:51,703 --> 01:44:54,414 who liked to live in the shadows of things... 1117 01:44:55,499 --> 01:44:57,417 so he wouldn't frighten people. 1118 01:44:57,584 --> 01:44:59,503 - What was that? - Who's speaking? 1119 01:45:01,254 --> 01:45:03,006 What are you doing? 1120 01:45:03,173 --> 01:45:04,925 Telling a story. 1121 01:45:05,091 --> 01:45:06,176 Why? 1122 01:45:06,343 --> 01:45:07,385 Whose boy? 1123 01:45:08,512 --> 01:45:09,554 She's telling a story. 1124 01:45:09,721 --> 01:45:10,722 Speak up. 1125 01:45:12,390 --> 01:45:13,433 Start again. 1126 01:45:16,353 --> 01:45:19,022 There once was a ghost of a boy... 1127 01:45:19,189 --> 01:45:21,399 who liked to live in the shadows, 1128 01:45:21,566 --> 01:45:23,777 so he wouldn't frighten people. 1129 01:45:25,487 --> 01:45:30,200 His job was to wait for his sister, who was still alive. 1130 01:45:32,077 --> 01:45:34,371 She wasn't afraid of the dark... 1131 01:45:34,538 --> 01:45:38,250 because she knew that's where her brother was. 1132 01:45:40,377 --> 01:45:41,795 Go on. 1133 01:45:42,754 --> 01:45:46,883 At night, when darkness came to her room... 1134 01:45:47,968 --> 01:45:50,387 she would tell her brother about the day. 1135 01:45:50,554 --> 01:45:55,058 She would remind him how the sun felt on his skin... 1136 01:45:55,225 --> 01:45:57,644 and what the air felt like to breathe... 1137 01:46:01,314 --> 01:46:05,569 Or how snow felt on his tongue. And that reminded her... 1138 01:46:05,944 --> 01:46:08,280 that she was still alive. 1139 01:46:23,420 --> 01:46:24,629 Gentlemen... 1140 01:46:25,505 --> 01:46:26,965 how is everybody? 1141 01:46:27,382 --> 01:46:30,527 Look at this one. They are starting to conscript grandfathers. 1142 01:46:31,720 --> 01:46:36,057 Hey, old man. Old man, are they your own teeth? 1143 01:47:02,584 --> 01:47:06,004 Together, they sat in the forest... 1144 01:47:06,171 --> 01:47:09,299 and watched the sun rise. 1145 01:47:09,466 --> 01:47:12,719 And as he disappeared back into the shadows... 1146 01:47:12,886 --> 01:47:16,348 she waved goodbye for the last time. 1147 01:47:18,850 --> 01:47:20,518 Oh, Liesel. 1148 01:48:04,604 --> 01:48:05,772 Max? 1149 01:48:07,023 --> 01:48:08,024 Max? 1150 01:48:08,733 --> 01:48:09,985 Max! 1151 01:48:15,240 --> 01:48:16,282 Max! 1152 01:48:17,325 --> 01:48:18,702 Saumensch! 1153 01:48:18,910 --> 01:48:20,662 What are you up to? 1154 01:48:20,829 --> 01:48:21,871 Max? 1155 01:48:23,039 --> 01:48:24,749 - Liesel! - Max? 1156 01:48:25,834 --> 01:48:27,460 - Do you know Max? - Liesel! 1157 01:48:28,044 --> 01:48:29,129 Do you know Max? 1158 01:48:31,798 --> 01:48:33,216 Max? 1159 01:48:36,386 --> 01:48:37,887 Do you know Max? 1160 01:48:45,353 --> 01:48:47,272 Get out of here, you stupid girl! 1161 01:48:49,607 --> 01:48:50,650 Liesel! 1162 01:48:51,359 --> 01:48:53,611 I won't forget you. I won't forget you. 1163 01:48:53,862 --> 01:48:55,405 I won't forget you. 1164 01:48:55,572 --> 01:48:57,449 I won't forget you, Max. 1165 01:48:58,324 --> 01:48:59,367 Liesel! 1166 01:49:05,582 --> 01:49:06,624 Go out! 1167 01:49:07,459 --> 01:49:08,460 Liesel! 1168 01:49:20,972 --> 01:49:23,516 You're too much like your father, you know that? 1169 01:49:25,602 --> 01:49:27,854 What's wrong with that? 1170 01:49:31,232 --> 01:49:32,776 Nothing. 1171 01:49:40,033 --> 01:49:42,285 Hey, Saumensch, want to play? 1172 01:49:42,452 --> 01:49:44,579 Nein, not today. 1173 01:49:45,038 --> 01:49:47,457 Then let's steal something. 1174 01:49:47,624 --> 01:49:50,043 I don't steal. I borrow. 1175 01:49:50,668 --> 01:49:55,507 Then let's go borrow Franz Deutscher's bike und get out of here. 1176 01:49:56,674 --> 01:49:57,759 Can't you see I'm reading? 1177 01:49:59,177 --> 01:50:00,470 Are you still angry with me? 1178 01:50:02,305 --> 01:50:03,556 For what? 1179 01:50:05,600 --> 01:50:07,185 Saving you. 1180 01:50:07,852 --> 01:50:09,312 Nein, Rudy. 1181 01:50:09,562 --> 01:50:10,814 You're very brave. 1182 01:50:26,913 --> 01:50:28,331 Papa! 1183 01:50:30,542 --> 01:50:31,876 You're home! 1184 01:50:39,384 --> 01:50:41,177 What is it, my girl? 1185 01:50:46,975 --> 01:50:48,393 My girl. 1186 01:50:49,269 --> 01:50:50,645 My girl. 1187 01:51:15,003 --> 01:51:17,380 It's nice to hear you play. 1188 01:51:17,630 --> 01:51:19,424 I can't hear properly. 1189 01:51:21,509 --> 01:51:23,136 I'm going to bed. 1190 01:51:24,179 --> 01:51:26,431 Don't stay up too late, you two. 1191 01:51:39,152 --> 01:51:41,571 Your mama told me what you did. 1192 01:51:45,158 --> 01:51:46,784 I shouldn't have. 1193 01:51:47,160 --> 01:51:48,995 Maybe you had to. 1194 01:51:52,457 --> 01:51:54,834 I keep thinking about Max. 1195 01:51:55,752 --> 01:51:57,003 Wondering where he is. 1196 01:51:58,421 --> 01:52:00,006 Me, too. 1197 01:52:01,883 --> 01:52:04,010 I'm not sure what it all meant. 1198 01:52:05,428 --> 01:52:07,597 Everything he went through. 1199 01:52:08,306 --> 01:52:10,266 Everything we did. 1200 01:52:13,311 --> 01:52:15,772 We were just being people. 1201 01:52:16,981 --> 01:52:18,316 That's what people do. 1202 01:52:21,277 --> 01:52:22,570 Liesel... 1203 01:52:23,696 --> 01:52:25,657 you are all grown up. 1204 01:52:31,079 --> 01:52:35,667 All I have learned is that life makes no promises. 1205 01:52:35,833 --> 01:52:37,794 So I had better get started. 1206 01:52:38,419 --> 01:52:41,005 I have always tried to ignore it... 1207 01:52:41,339 --> 01:52:44,509 but I know this all started with a train... 1208 01:52:46,302 --> 01:52:48,054 and some snow... 1209 01:52:49,180 --> 01:52:50,682 and my brother. 1210 01:52:53,893 --> 01:52:57,605 Outside the car, the world was thrown inside a snow-shaker. 1211 01:52:57,897 --> 01:52:59,941 Und on a place called Heaven Street... 1212 01:53:00,108 --> 01:53:03,861 a man with an accordion heart und a woman cloaked in thunder... 1213 01:53:04,028 --> 01:53:05,655 waited for their new daughter. 1214 01:53:13,246 --> 01:53:17,250 He lived under our stairs like a quiet owl with no wings... 1215 01:53:17,417 --> 01:53:20,420 until the sun forgot what his face was. 1216 01:53:27,051 --> 01:53:29,095 The book floated down the river... 1217 01:53:29,262 --> 01:53:33,057 like a red fish being chased by a yellow-haired boy. 1218 01:53:43,318 --> 01:53:46,029 For Max, who gave me eyes. 1219 01:54:12,680 --> 01:54:14,891 Good night, Your Majesty. 1220 01:54:26,152 --> 01:54:30,323 I've always quite liked the image of me with a sickle and cape. 1221 01:54:30,490 --> 01:54:33,034 Dark and formidable. 1222 01:54:33,201 --> 01:54:37,455 Unfortunately, I'm far more ordinary and commonplace. 1223 01:54:39,415 --> 01:54:43,336 No one intended to destroy a street named after Heaven. 1224 01:54:44,087 --> 01:54:46,589 It was a misread on a map. 1225 01:54:46,756 --> 01:54:49,092 No sirens that evening. 1226 01:54:50,426 --> 01:54:52,804 First were Rudy's brothers. 1227 01:54:56,599 --> 01:54:59,143 I read their simple dreams. 1228 01:55:03,356 --> 01:55:05,900 Then, I kissed his mother. 1229 01:55:08,486 --> 01:55:12,407 And stole the meanness from Franz Deutscher's heart. 1230 01:55:17,537 --> 01:55:20,289 Rosa, I caught mid-snore. 1231 01:55:21,082 --> 01:55:24,544 I could swear I heard her call me a Saukerl. 1232 01:55:24,710 --> 01:55:30,383 Then I felt her regrets for not sharing more of her very big heart. 1233 01:55:31,259 --> 01:55:36,222 As for Hans, his soul was lighter than a child's. 1234 01:55:36,556 --> 01:55:40,476 I felt his itch for one last tune on his accordion... 1235 01:55:41,060 --> 01:55:43,521 and heard his final thought... 1236 01:55:45,440 --> 01:55:47,108 "Liesel." 1237 01:56:40,244 --> 01:56:41,537 Over here! 1238 01:56:47,502 --> 01:56:49,045 Just over. 1239 01:56:57,136 --> 01:56:58,179 Your hand. 1240 01:57:11,067 --> 01:57:13,319 Mama? Papa? 1241 01:57:51,274 --> 01:57:52,608 Papa? 1242 01:57:58,406 --> 01:57:59,740 Papa. 1243 01:58:26,058 --> 01:58:27,310 Rudy? 1244 01:58:42,742 --> 01:58:44,702 Saumensch. 1245 01:58:46,037 --> 01:58:47,204 Liesel. 1246 01:58:51,792 --> 01:58:53,002 I need to tell you... 1247 01:58:53,169 --> 01:58:54,629 Don't speak. 1248 01:58:55,504 --> 01:58:57,381 I need to say it. 1249 01:59:01,886 --> 01:59:03,054 I... 1250 01:59:07,266 --> 01:59:08,434 Rudy? 1251 01:59:10,061 --> 01:59:11,228 Rudy, nein. 1252 01:59:12,271 --> 01:59:13,731 Rudy, wake up. 1253 01:59:14,565 --> 01:59:15,941 Rudy, nein! 1254 01:59:16,108 --> 01:59:18,778 Wake up, Rudy! Rudy, wake up! 1255 01:59:19,570 --> 01:59:21,113 Rudy, kiss me. 1256 01:59:26,744 --> 01:59:31,290 Rudy, his soul just rolled into my arms. 1257 02:00:49,076 --> 02:00:53,539 In my job, I am always finding humans at their best... 1258 02:00:53,998 --> 02:00:55,916 and their worst. 1259 02:00:56,083 --> 02:00:59,378 I see their ugliness, and their beauty... 1260 02:00:59,920 --> 02:01:03,924 and I wonder how the same thing can be both. 1261 02:01:56,685 --> 02:01:57,728 Liesel! 1262 02:03:00,666 --> 02:03:01,917 Max! 1263 02:03:14,638 --> 02:03:17,683 I have seen a great many things. 1264 02:03:17,850 --> 02:03:21,186 I've attended all the world's worst disasters... 1265 02:03:21,353 --> 02:03:24,315 and worked for the greatest of villains. 1266 02:03:24,899 --> 02:03:27,902 And I've seen the greatest wonders. 1267 02:03:28,235 --> 02:03:31,071 But it's still like I said it was. 1268 02:03:31,238 --> 02:03:33,949 No one lives forever. 1269 02:03:42,124 --> 02:03:45,127 When I finally came for Liesel... 1270 02:03:45,294 --> 02:03:47,855 I took selfish pleasure in the knowledge 1271 02:03:47,880 --> 02:03:51,383 that she had lived her 90 years so wisely. 1272 02:03:58,265 --> 02:04:02,394 By then, her stories had touched many souls. 1273 02:04:02,561 --> 02:04:05,689 Some of whom I came to know in passing. 1274 02:04:11,362 --> 02:04:16,533 Max, whose friendship lasted almost as long as Liesel. 1275 02:04:17,409 --> 02:04:19,036 Almost. 1276 02:04:21,956 --> 02:04:23,999 In her final thoughts... 1277 02:04:24,166 --> 02:04:28,545 she saw the long list of lives that merged with hers. 1278 02:04:29,296 --> 02:04:30,798 Her three children. 1279 02:04:30,965 --> 02:04:32,883 Her grandchildren. 1280 02:04:33,050 --> 02:04:35,094 Her husband. 1281 02:04:35,678 --> 02:04:38,305 Among them, lit like lanterns... 1282 02:04:38,472 --> 02:04:40,724 were Hans and Rosa... 1283 02:04:40,891 --> 02:04:42,267 her brother... 1284 02:04:42,434 --> 02:04:47,481 and the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever. 1285 02:04:50,150 --> 02:04:51,961 I wanted to tell the book thief 1286 02:04:51,986 --> 02:04:53,696 she was one of the few souls... 1287 02:04:53,862 --> 02:04:57,700 that made me wonder what it was to live. 1288 02:04:58,575 --> 02:05:01,870 But in the end, there were no words. 1289 02:05:02,037 --> 02:05:03,789 Only peace. 1290 02:05:04,832 --> 02:05:07,876 The only truth I truly know... 1291 02:05:08,043 --> 02:05:12,673 is that I am haunted by humans.