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The Books and the Night (1999) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1999 · 82 mins · Spanish
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- Directed by
- Tristán Bauer
- Starring
- Leonardo Sbaraglia, Héctor Alterio, Walter Santa Ana, Lorenzo Quinteros, Jorge Luis Borges, Lucas de Diego
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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