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The Man Who Wanted to Classify the World (2002) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 2002 · 60 mins · English
- Directed by
- Françoise Levie
- Starring
- Manuela Servais, Michel Guillou
Born in 1868, Belgian Paul Otlet spent his life refining the Dewey Classification into the Universal Decimal Classification. By the time of his death in 1944 he had compiled an astonishing 17 million index cards, representing a vast portion of human knowledge.
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