Besides presenting an actual exhibition, this film about a Monument of National Literatuře also presents an interpretation of the history of Czech literature that was subject to the mores of that time. It looks at the exhibition chronologically, it comments on documents from the beginnings of the national literature up to the 1950s, emphasises the importance of the relationship of the present time with the national cultural tradition. It labels the museum itself as a “people’s university” and draws attention to its educational role.
Otakar Brousek
Commentary (voice)
All the World's Memory
The Feminist Library
Svet na dotyk
Biblioburro, the Donkey Library
A Walk Through Prospero's Library
American Animals
The Librarians
Prameny síly
The People's Palace: A Portrait of the New York Public Library
Embassy of the Free Mind
The Case For Books
One Book at a Time
