All the World's Memory

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.

Director

Alain Resnais

Music

Maurice Jarre

Studio

Les Films de la Pléiade

Released

1 November 1956

Genres

Documentary