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The Book Thief

2013
United States / Germany
feature film - Drama
131 min. (3589 m.)
Studio shooting / no Berlin story line

Cast

Actor/-ess: Sophie Nélisse (Liesel Meminger); Geoffrey Rush (Liesels Vater); Emily Watson (Liesels Mutter); Rafael Gareisen (Walther); Levin Liam (Franz); Mike Maas (Rolf Fischer); Sandra Nedeleff (Sarah); Hildegard Schroedter (Frau Becker); Godehard Giese (Polizist im Zug); Rainer Reiners (Priester); Joachim Paul Assböck (SS Offizier)

Direction

Director: Brian Percival

Assistant director: Phil Booth

Writing

Screenplay: Michael Petroni

Based on: Markus Zusak (Roman)

Camera & Light

Director of photography: Florian Ballhaus

Camera operator: Florian Emmerich; Nicolay Gutscher

Assistant camera / focus puller: Karim Rahmani

Lighting technician: David Horn; Maximilian Dreusch; Volker Vahl

Decor

Set Dresser: Erik Hennig; Stefanie Gros

Set design: Mark Rosinski

Property master: Christiane Cornelius; Andreas Widmann

Stand-by props: David Thummerer

Make-up artist: Fae Hammond; Marika Knappe

Costume design: Anna Sheppard

Production design: Simon Elliott

Art Director: Bill Crutcher; Jens Löckmann; Anja Müller

Cutting & Mixing

Editing: John Wilson

Sound: Manfred Banach

Sound assistant: Dirk Schaefer

Stunt co-ordinator: Antje Rau

Stunts: Bernhard Schirmer

Casting: Kate Dowd

Music

Music: John Williams

Production

Producer: Karen Rosenfelt; Redmond Morris

Co-Producer: Christoph Fisser; Henning Molfenter; Carl L. Woebcken

Location manager: Benedikt Bothe

Motive location manager: Volkmar Croyé

Companies

Production company: Fox 2000 Pictures; Studio Babelsberg GmbH