Movie·1956·0h 21m
All the World's Memory
Country
France
Language
French
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The Story
Original title: Toute la mémoire du monde
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.
Producer
Pierre Braunberger
Music
Maurice Jarre
Editor
Alain Resnais
Themes
Production House
Audience Score
47 votes
// cast
Cast
Jacques Dumesnil
Self / Narrator (voice)
Agnès Varda
// crew
Crew
Alain Resnais
Director, Editor
Maurice Jarre
Original Music Composer
Pierre Braunberger
Producer
Anne Sarraute
Editor
Claudine Merlin
Editor
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