It could be better

Rating: 6/10 (15 June 2014)

We have here a movie that portrays with enough realism the atmosphere of Nazi Germany in the years that preceded World War II and during it. A tyrannic atmosphere where human beings lived oppressed by inhuman values no matter they were supported by a lot a fanatics. It's the story of a girl whose mother was a communist and as such she had been probably sent to a concentration camp, a detail we never are exactly aware of. The girl is withdrawn from her mother and comes to live with a couple who has adopted her and of whom the husband is a tender hearted man but the wife is rude although not wicked. They shelter a young Jewish man who is trying to escape arrest and deportation to a death camp like it's happening to all Jews in Germany then. The girl steals books of a Nazi authority's library and bring them home to read and lends them to the Jewish young man with whom she at once establishes a very deep friendly relationship. The story is moving though not particularly deep. But it could be much better if it didn't erect Death -- let's say -- as the main character whose voice off as narrator is heard now and then as if he was master of the world and mankind which in my opinion introduces a negative value in the movie.