Jojo Rabbit: Book vs. Movie
Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit (2019) adapts Christine Leunens’s 2004 novel Caging Skies. A boy devoted to the Hitler Youth discovers that his mother is hiding a Jewish teenager in their home.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Christine Leunens
- Year
- 2019
- Pages
- 306Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 10 hr 27 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Steven Jay Cohen
Johannes Betzler embraces the Hitler Youth and the promises of Nazi rule until he discovers that his parents are sheltering a Jewish girl in their Vienna home. Injured and increasingly isolated, he becomes absorbed in Elsa’s hidden life and the attention she gives him. His growing attachment does not free him from the desire to control her, and keeping her safe becomes entangled with keeping her dependent on him.
- Director
- Taika Waititi
- Writer
- Taika Waititi
- Year
- 2019
- Runtime
- 1 hr 48 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Taika Waititi, Rebel Wilson
- Genre
- Comedy, comedy drama, Drama, war
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Ten-year-old Jojo wants to prove himself a devoted Nazi, encouraged by an imaginary Hitler who supplies the confidence he lacks. After an accident at a youth camp leaves him recuperating at home, he discovers Elsa, a Jewish teenager his mother is hiding. Jojo tries to interrogate her about everything he has been taught to fear, but their conversations make it increasingly difficult to preserve his picture of the enemy.
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