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La voleuse de livres

Summary: Based upon the best-selling novel. The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.

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  • Physical Description: 1 streaming video file (131 min.) : digital, sound, color
    remote
    Computer data.
  • Publisher: Beverly Hills, California : 20th Century Fox Film Corp, 2013.
  • Distributor: Vaughan, ON : Criterion-on-Demand, [2013]

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General Note:
CatMonthString:april.21
Multi-User.
Originally released as a motion picture by 20th Century Fox Film Corp, 2013.
Restrictions on Access Note:
Access restricted to subscribers.
Creation/Production Credits Note: Music, John Williams ; film editor, John Wilson ; production designer, Simon Elliott ; costume designer, Anna B. Sheppard.
Participant or Performer Note: Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson, Roger Allam, Sophie Nelisse, Ben Schnetzer.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:
Streaming video.
Target Audience Note:
CHV rating: PG.
MPAA rating: PG-13; for some violence and intense depiction of thematic material.
Additional Physical Form available Note:
English language version also available.
System Details Note:
Content available as downloadable file or streaming video.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:
Access may be limited to affiliated libraries.
Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff.
Language Note:
Soundtrack dubbed in French, optional French subtitles.
Issuing Body Note:
Made available online by publisher.
Source of Description Note:
Title from distributor's web site (viewed May 10, 2015).
Subject: Multi-User.
Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Drama
World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction
Storytelling -- Drama
Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Drama
Germans -- Drama
Books and reading -- Drama
Genre: Streaming video.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Historical films.
War films.

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