CinemaOSMovie · 1956 · 0h 21m

All the World's Memory

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A documentary about the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It presents the building, with its processes of cataloguing and preserving all sorts of printed material, as both a monument of cultural memory and as a monstrous, alien being.

Directed byAlain Resnais

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Status: Released
Runtime: 0h 21m
Language: FR
Released: November 1, 1956

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Les Films de la Pléiade

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Toute la mémoire du monde (1956)

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Jacques Dumesnil

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Agnès Varda

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Directed by: Alain Resnais
Produced by: Pierre Braunberger

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