UMBERTO ECO - A LIBRARY OF THE WORLD

UMBERTO ECO - LA BIBLIOTECA DEL MONDO

By Davide FERRARIO

FILM FORUM - as CONS

Documentary - Completed 2023

Umberto Eco’s private library was a world in itself: more than 30,000 contemporary books and 1,500 rare and antique volumes. This documentary describes a one-of-a-kind place, also trying to catch and represent the universal idea of a library as “memory of the world”.

Festivals
& Awards

FIPADOC 2023
Competition - International Documentary
Karlovy Vary IFF 2023
    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • ITALY
    • Languages
    • ITALIAN
    • Duration
    • 80 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Davide FERRARIO
    • Synopsis
    • 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.