All the World's Memory

1956 | 21 minutes | 7.0 ★ (43)

All the World's Memory
  • Overview

    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.

  • Release Date

    01 November 1956

  • DirectingAlain Resnais
  • Budget

    $0.00

  • Revenue

    $0.00

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