The Books and the Night

Year: 1999

Runtime: 82 mins

Language: Spanish

Director: Tristán Bauer

Documentary

Exploring memory as a coin that never stays the same, the film offers a dramatized portrait of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899‑1986). It weaves recreations of several of his stories with staged reflections on his philosophical ideas, literary imagination and key moments of his personal life, giving viewers a vivid sense of his enigmatic world.

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