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All the World's Memory

Nov 1, 1956 · 21m
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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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CAST

Jacques Dumesnil
Self / Narrator (voice)
Agnès Varda
Directed by Alain Resnais

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Released
Original language
FR
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—
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—
Production
Les Films de la Pléiade
Country
FR

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