Book Hunters(2017)

🎬52 min
📅2017-09-22
🎭Documentary, History
⭐8.0/10

Overview

When chaos reigns, while barbaric and fanatical rulers, both ecclesiastical and secular, systematically burn entire libraries, book hunters, secret heroes of history, travel the world saving and copying texts, threatened by the madness of censors, with the noble purpose of preventing the ultimate loss of human knowledge.

Production

Kinescope Film, nordmedia, ARTE, Radio Bremen

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Cast

Robert Levin
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Najeeb Michaeel
as Self - Dominican Monk
Columba Stewart
as Self - Benedictine Monk
Chiara Raimondo
as Self - Archaeologist
Stephen Greenblatt
as Self - Literature Scholar
Letizia Mandate
as Self - Greek Culture Scholar
Vito Mocella
as Self - Optical Engineer
Mustafa Jahie
as Self - Librarian
Andrea Dautović
as Self - Librarian
Enver Imamovíc
as Self - Archaeologist

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