The Last Bookshop of The World (2017)
• October 13th, 2017 • 1h 40min
Documentary
Overview
The documentary is a true story of four real intellectual Europeans from different cultures who are worried about the decline of literature’s life and the destiny of the street level bookshops in every country. That is why they have a mission to save symbolically “the world's last quality books”.
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