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A young bakery attendant becomes Brazil's greatest rare book thief, facing four imprisonments.
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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.
"A very curious and true story, meet the life and robbery schemes of Brazil's greatest rare book thief - Laéssio Rodrigues de Oliveira. 'Letters To a Book Thief' is a great national documentary, directed by the journalists Carlos Juliano Barros and Caio Cavechini, that captures you from the beginning of the movie - much due to the main character being an unusual figure."