The Books and the Night (2000)
The memory. That coin which is not never the same.
Genre : Documentary
Runtime : 1H 22M
Director : Tristán Bauer
Synopsis
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.
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