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.
Key facts
Original language
French
Production companies
FILMS DE LA PLÉIADE
Distributors
FILMS DU JEUDI
Crew
Screenplay
Rémo Forlani
Producer
Pierre Braunberger
Cinematography
Ghislain Cloquet
Editing
Claudine Merlin, Alain Resnais, Anne Sarraute
Music
Maurice Jarre
Trailer
Stills
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Festival History
- International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2025 generic
- Locarno International Film Festival 1995 generic
- Cannes Film Festival 1957 generic
Titles
| Original title | TOUTE LA MÉMOIRE DU MONDE | French |
| Alternate title | Bibliothèque nationale | |
| Alternate title | All the World's Memory |
Versions & editions
| Original version (French) |
Full credits
| Director | Alain Resnais |
| Screenplay | Rémo Forlani |
| Producer | Pierre Braunberger |
| Cinematography | Ghislain Cloquet |
| Editing | Claudine Merlin, Alain Resnais, Anne Sarraute |
| Music | Maurice Jarre |
Source: Cinémathèque québécoise, linked catalogue data (CC BY 4.0)
