The Reader - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[albert]

The Book Thief 2013

While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home a Jewish refuge is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.

The Book Thief features emotional, touching, sentimental, serious and captivating style.

[ronnie]

Ghetto 2005

In 1942 in Vilna the Nazi annihilate 55000 Jews and squeeze the 15000 survivors in a seven blocks ghetto. The twenty-two year old sadistic commander Kittel is assigned to administrate the ghetto in the capital of Lithuania becoming the master ...

Ghetto features bleak, serious, realistic, emotional and rough style.

[cacao]

Fateless 2005

An Hungarian youth comes of age at Buchenwald during World War II. Gyrgy Kves is 14 the son of a merchant whos sent to a forced labor camp. After his fathers departure Gyrgy gets a job at a brickyard his bus is stopped and its ...

Fateless features emotional, sincere, serious, disturbing and gloomy style.

[JimmyAduro]

Anne Frank: The Whole Story 2001

Anne Frank The Whole Story is a film based on the life of Anne Frank a Jewish girl growing up in Nazi occupied Holland. When war breaks out Anne ampamp her family Otto her father Edith her mother ampamp Margot her sister move from Germany ...

Anne Frank: The Whole Story features sincere, uplifting, emotional, bleak and gloomy style.

[meiramadhani]

Lauf Junge lauf 2013

Run Boy Run is the true story of Jurek an eight-year-old boy who escapes from the Warsaw ghetto then manages to survive in the woods and working as a farmhand disguising himself as a Polish orphan. He encounters people who will betray him for a ...

Lauf Junge lauf features touching, captivating, bleak, serious and realistic style.

[baris]

Lore 2012

After her Nazi parents are imprisoned Lore leads her younger siblings across a war-torn Germany in 1945. Amidst the chaos she encounters mysterious Jewish refugee Thomas who shatters her fragile reality with hatred and desire. To live she must ...

Lore features tense, disturbing, sincere, bleak and suspense style.

[linda]

Hotel Rwanda 2004

Inspired by true events this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his ...

Hotel Rwanda features emotional, rough, thought provoking, uplifting and sincere style.

[stephanie]

Conspiracy 2001

The historical recreation of the 1942 Wannsee Conference in which Nazi and SS leaders gathered in a Berlin suburb to discuss the quotFinal Solution to the Jewish Questionquot. Lead by SS-General Reinhard Heydrich this group of high ranking ...

Conspiracy features bleak, disturbing, factual, intense and atmospheric style.

[Michaelderne 0]

The Round Up 2010

1942. Joseph is eleven. And this June morning he must go to school a yellow star sown on his chest. He receives the support of a goods dealer. The mockery of a baker. Between kindness and contempt Jo his Jewish friends their families learn of ...

The Round Up features thought provoking, emotional, disturbing, bleak and realistic style.

[ethel]

Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg 1990

Swedish account of Raoul Wallenberg the man responsible for the largest rescue of Jews during World War II.

Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg features emotional, bleak, uplifting, thought provoking and serious style.

[Carolhof]

Uprising 2001

Jews rise up in the Warsaw Ghetto against the Nazis in 1943.

Uprising features uplifting, captivating, serious, rough and bleak style.

[baris]

Black Book 2006

In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.

Black Book features tense, psychological, epic, twists and turns and emotional style.

[brent]

Stalingrad 1993

quotStalingradquot follows the progress of a German Platoon through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After having half their number wiped out and after being placed under the command of a sadistic Captain the Lieutenant of the ...

Stalingrad features epic, rough, realistic, suspenseful and serious style.

[Faisal Zahid]

The Diary of Anne Frank 1980

The story of a 13-year-old Jewish girl and her family who are forced into hiding by the Nazis during World War II.

The Diary of Anne Frank features touching, gloomy, sincere, emotional and captivating style.

[cameron]

The Zookeepers Wife 2017

The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo Jan and Antonina Zabinski who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.

The Zookeepers Wife features rough, factual, suspenseful, tense and disturbing style.

[kotnob]

Triumph of the Spirit 1989

Fact based story about a former Greek Olympic boxer who was taken as a prisoner during World war II and placed in the Auschwitz prison camp. There he was permitted to survive as long as he fought for the amusement of his captors. His father and ...

Triumph of the Spirit features tense, suspenseful, bleak, serious and realistic

[Gregory Hunts]

The Hiding Place 1975

The Hiding Place is an account of a Dutch family who risk their lives by offering a safe haven for Jews during World War II

The Hiding Place features sincere, bleak, emotional, disturbing and uplifting style.

[eli]

Downfall 2004

In April of 1945 Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin capital of the Third Reich Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still ...

Downfall features psychological, bleak, disturbing, thought provoking and serious style.

[baris]

Rio 2011

Captured by smugglers when he was just a hatchling a macaw named Blu never learned to fly and lives a happily domesticated life in Minnesota with his human friend Linda. Blu is thought to be the last of his kind but when word comes that Jewel a ...

Rio features touching, exciting, humorous, colourful and entertaining style.

[duane]

The Wild 2006

An adolescent lion is accidentally shipped from the New York Zoo to Africa. Now running free his zoo pals must put aside their differences to help bring him back.

The Wild features humorous, feel good, light, captivating and exciting style.