The Love of Books: A Sarajevo Story
The Love of Books: A Sarajevo Story

The Love of Books: A Sarajevo Story

April 21, 2011 | 75 min

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.

Genres

Documentary

Cast

Share on social media

More Like This

The Long Road Through Balkan History
A Walk Through Prospero's Library
American Animals
Saved by Language
All the World's Memory
The Librarians
Back to Bosnia
The People's Palace: A Portrait of the New York Public Library
Biblioburro, the Donkey Library
Kiss the Future
The Trial of Ratko Mladic
Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things
Yours Truly, SEXYMAJA
A Word for Human
Behind the Doors of Umberto Eco
Partizani
Yugoslavia: How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body
Embassy of the Free Mind
Totally Personal
Les Trésors de la Bibliothèque nationale de France