Biblioburro, the Donkey Library
MovieTitle | Biblioburro, the Donkey Library |
User score | 0 |
Release date | Nov 3, 2008 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Luis Fernando Bohórquez , Carlos Rendon Zipagauta |
Production country | BE, CO, FR |
Run time | 52 min. |
This documentary follows the life of a one-of-a-kind man, and his one-of-a-kind library. Luis Soriano is a Colombian schoolteacher who spends weekends taking his donkey, and book collection, to the poverty-ridden towns of Magdalena Province. Facing down drug dealers, dangerous creatures, and overbearing heat, Soriano bravely faces down fear to promote education and literature.