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Produced by: Davide Ferrario, Francesca Bocca
A production: Rossofuoco in collaboration with Rai Cinema
Release: 2 march 2023
Genre: Documentary
Runtime: 80 min
Country: Italia
Director DAVIDE FERRARIO
Editing CRISTINA SARDO
D.O.P ANDREA ZAMBELLI, ANDREA ZANOLI
Music CARL ORFF
Original music FABIO BAROVERO
Sound designer VITO MARTINELLI
Executive producer LADIS ZANINI
with Giuseppe Cederna, Niccolò Ferrero, Paolo Giangrasso, Walter Leonardi, Zoe Tavarelli, Mariella Valentini
Umberto Eco’s private library was a world in itself: more than 30,000 contemporary books and 1,500 rare and antique volumes. The director had worked with Eco one year before the writer’s death on a video project for the Venice Art Biennale in 2015, gaining access to the library.
With the help of Eco’s family he has now produced a documentary that describes a one-of-a-kind place, but also tries to catch and represent the universal idea of a library as “memory of the world”, as Eco himself
liked to describe it.