CC - All the World's Memory

All the World's Memory

1956 21min FR

Toute la mémoire du monde is 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.

director: Alain Resnais

cast: Jacques Dumesnil

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