All the World's Memory

All the World's Memory

21 mins | Documentary | Jan. 1, 1956

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.

All the World's Memory

21 mins | Documentary | Jan. 1, 1956

All the World's Memory
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.
IMDb rating 7.7
Producers Les Films de la Pléiade
Original title Toute la mémoire du monde
Directors Jean-Charles Lauthe, André Heinrich, Alain Resnais
Writers

Cast

Jacques Dumesnil

as Himself - Narrator (voice)