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2000 Documentary 1h 22m

The Books and the Night

"The memory. That coin which is not never the same."

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.

6.4 TMDB RATING
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Principal 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)

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