The Love of Books: A Sarajevo Story

April. 21,2011      
Rating:
8.4
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Documentary which tells the story of a group of men and women who risked their lives to rescue a library - and preserve a nation's history - in the midst of the Bosnian war. Amid bullets and bombs and under fire from shells and snipers, this handful of passionate book-lovers safeguarded more than 10,000 unique, hand-written Islamic books and manuscripts - the most important texts held by Sarajevo's last surviving library.

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I live in Sarajevo and was a part of the whole story, to young to understand it at that time, but movies like this are learning myself the importance to see in the past to better understand the future. The story in this movie is incredible touching, pointing out the main objective of this war, to destroy every written document about Bosnian nationality and its deep history.If you want to learn about important things that are not pointed out enough, see this movie. If you are a pacifist, see this movie. If you want to see unity in action, see this movie. If you want to see multiculturalism in action, see this movie.

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