Saw it Yesterday. I am still thinking about it, Just Stunning!

Rating: 9/10 (9 December 2013)

Liesel is too innocent to react "correctly" to the events affecting her and the ones she knows and loves. World War II unfolds on the European front, through her eyes,as her birth mother must place her with a foster family, just before she becomes "sanitized" by the Reich.
Kristallnacht/Crystal Night becomes the prelude to the desire by German citizens for intellectual solace from the values of the fascist state.
Many successful elements combine in a powerful fable and request for integrity over inhuman or perhaps too human events.
The growth in the non-organic family is quite stunning. The change in most of the characters is developed strongly and really involved me.
Superb acting by all.