The Great Book Robbery
2012, English. Directed by Benny Brunner.
The Great Book Robbery is a powerful and poignant chronicle of cultural destruction. It tells the story of the 70,000 Palestinian books that were looted by the newly formed State of Israel in 1948. The film weaves together a range of storylines to create a dramatic, engaging, and deeply emotional structure. The interviews in the film focus on first-hand accounts and cultural analyses that contextualize the book theft within a larger historical and cultural framework, shedding new light on the Palestinian tragedy of 1948 and its impact on culture.
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- 0h 57m
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- English
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The Great Book Robbery isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 15 April 2012. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Great Book Robbery?
The Great Book Robbery (2012) was directed by Benny Brunner.