All the World's Memory

Directed by Alain Resnais
1956    21mDocumentary, Short
7.77.1
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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  • Jacques DumesnilSelf / Narrator (voice)
  • Agnès Varda
  • Alain ResnaisDirector / Editor
  • Pierre BraunbergerProducer
  • Jean-Charles LautheAssistant Director
  • André HeinrichAssistant Director
  • Anne SarrauteEditor
  • Claudine MerlinEditor
  • Maurice JarreOriginal Music Composer
  • Georges DelerueConductor

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