Cartas Para um Ladrão de Livros
Laéssio Rodrigues is considered the greatest thief of rare books in Brazil. Over the last five years, this documentary has followed his trajectory, which includes four imprisonments. It is not an ordinary story the one of a young bakery attendant, obsessed with antique papers, who starts to live among fine art merchants and collectors and then sees himself in the newspapers' crime pages.
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Cartas Para um Ladrão de Livros (2018)
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Laéssio Rodrigues is considered the greatest thief of rare books in Brazil. Over the last five years, this documentary has followed his trajectory, which includes four imprisonments. It is not an ordinary story the one of a young bakery attendant, obsessed with antique papers, who starts to live among fine art merchants and collectors and then sees himself in the newspapers' crime pages.
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