Film
The Books and the Night
2000 · 1h 22m · Documentary
The memory. That coin which is not never the same.
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Overview
A dramatized approach to the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) through the recreation of some of his works and the staging of various aspects of his thought and his life.
Cast
Walter Santa Ana
Jorge Luis Borges
Lorenzo Quinteros
Bible Seller
Héctor Alterio
Man from the Future
Leonardo Sbaraglia
Young Borges
Lucas de Diego
Younger Borges
Matías Fernández Madrid
Borges' Father
Jorge Luis Borges
Himself (archive footage)
Crew
- Tristán BauerDirector · Writer
- Carolina ScaglioneWriter
- Diego DubcovskyProducer
- Belén GiménezProducer
- Tomás VignauDirector of Photography
- Javier JuliaDirector of Photography
- Federico BonassoOriginal Music Composer
- Alejandro BrodersohnEditor
Media
Details
- Release date
- April 27, 2000
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Spanish
- Runtime
- 1h 22m
- Genres
- Documentary
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