LETTERS TO A BOOK THIEF

CARTAS PARA UM LADRÃO DE LIVROS

By Carlos Juliano BARROS, Caio CAVECHINI

BOUTIQUE FILMES - as PROD

True Story - Completed 2018

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.

Festivals
& Awards

Mostra Internacional de Cinema de São Paulo 2017
Festival do Rio 2017
Queer Lisboa 2018
    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • True Story, Social issues, Documentary
    • Countries
    • BRAZIL
    • Languages
    • BRAZILIAN-PORTUGUESE
    • Duration
    • 96 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Carlos Juliano BARROS, Caio CAVECHINI
    • Producer(s)
    • Gustavo MELLO (Boutique Filmes)
    • Synopsis
    • 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. But the decision to narrate it involves dilemmas for which neither Laesio nor the documentary itself were prepared.

      Although in twisted ways, Laessio evidences the necessity of Brazil to take care of its own History.