In the Shop of 81-Year-Old Bookbinder Wolfgang Bremer

Wolfgang Bremer has been making books for more than fifty years. Here is a video from his studio in Bromma near Stockholm, Sweden.

The video is melodramatically titled De sista bokbindarna — The Last Bookbindery. That’s the thing journalists really love to do over past years. I understand that’s just a preview of a documentary aired at Sveriges Television last year. However, it is worth watching even as it is.

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  • Here is the link to the SVT web site with description of the video;
  • A short review of the film by one of the former Wolfgang’s students Shemah Hassan.

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