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All the World's Memory

All the World's Memory

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 1, 1956

Runtime

0h 21m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

70%

Original Title

Toute la mémoire du monde

Production Companies

Les Films de la Pléiade

Director

Alain Resnais

Description

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.