SUMMARY
The Great Book Robbery explores the looting of 70,000 Palestinian books during the 1948 war by the newly born state of Israel. The film employs a multifaceted approach to tell a multilayer story: dramatic location filming, eyewitness accounts, archival footage, pictorial material, C.G.I.—computer generated images, documents and culture critiques.
The Great Book Robbery sheds new light on the Palestinian tragedy of 1948, also known as the Nakba (or ‘catastrophe’), when some 725,000 Palestinians were dispossessed to make way for a Jewish-majority Israeli state. In the intervening years, Israel has constructed a moralistic and heroic narrative of the 1948 war. The film aims to deconstruct this imperial history and to prevent this story from fading into oblivion by passing it on to future generations.
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