L'homme qui voulait classer le monde
The story of a Belgian utopian, Paul Otlet (1868-1944). Barely known in his own country, Paul Otlet is considered today by historians of communication as one of the precursors to the Internet. As early as 1934, he conceived of a library with no physical books whose contents could be viewed on a screen. All his life, this Belgian utopian cultivated a strange sort of obsession: to classify, encode, and unify all kinds of books and documents published in the world. Over the years, he and his staff would fill in 12 million index cards. The story of a utopia that could have come true, of an intuition that winds up becoming an obsession, of a dream of Universal Peace ending in frenzy...The story of an apparent failure and an unforeseen posthumous victory...
Belgium - 2002 - 1 h - Betacam Digital - Colour and B&W
Director
Françoise Levie
Script
Benoît Peeters, Françoise Levie
Camera
Win Lecompte
Sound
François Druwier
Editing
Anne Christophe
Music
Johan Hoogewijs
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Production
Sofidoc,
46, rue Colonel Bourg,
1030 Bruxelles, Belgique
Tél : +32 2 705 0990
Fax : +32 2 705 1744
E-mail : info@sofidoc.be
Co-Production
Radiotélévision belge de la communauté française, Wild Heart Productions
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Sales
Doc & Co,
Catherine Le Clef,
13, rue Portefoin,
75003 Paris, France
Tél : +33 (0)1 42 77 89 65
Fax : +33 (0)1 4277 3656
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