"An incredible journey to save quality literature"13 October 2017Factual100 mins
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”.
Watch the official The Last Bookshop of The World 2017 trailer in HD below.
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