The Books and the Night
The memory. That coin which is not never the same.
2000 · 1h 22m · N/A Documentary
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.
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