The Love of Books: A Sarajevo Story

2011 "How a group of book lovers risked their lives to save a library during the Bosnian war"
8.4| 1h15m| NA| en| More Info
Released: 21 April 2011 Released
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Official Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01cc84n
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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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Sam Hobkinson

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Cebalord Very best movie i ever watch
Sexylocher Masterful Movie
Calum Hutton It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...
Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.
Mirza Basic There are a whole bunch of really nice subtle aspects to this documentary that have been really well captured. Photography in it is very good and brilliantly executed. Music is very appropriate and well suited to the mood and I just watched the whole thing in one breath. Amazing work! Deserves many more awards in my opinion. The content of this documentary is also of very important nature and hugely informative about Bosnia as a country and what happened in it during the war. I'm going to try and re-watch it on a big screen somewhere again and take notes while watching. As a Bosnian person this documentary made me cry in the end and showed me (once again) that there are so many great qualities to Bosnian people of all religions who are still happily living there today.
fullvedo 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.