Documentary · France · 1956 · 21m

All the World's Memory

Toute la mémoire du monde

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Director
Alain Resnais
Cast
Jacques Dumesnil as Self / Narrator (voice) Agnès Varda as
Crew
Anne Sarraute — Editor Alain Resnais — Editor Claudine Merlin — Editor Maurice Jarre — Original Music Composer Pierre Braunberger — Producer
Synopsis

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.

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Mood & Themes
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Key Collaborators
Alain Resnais Director Anne Sarraute Editor Alain Resnais Editor Claudine Merlin Editor Maurice Jarre Original Music Composer Pierre Braunberger Producer
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