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Life of Jorge Luis Borges

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Life of Jorge Luis Borges

Biografía de Jorge Luis Borges

direction Mariano Llinás

Argentina 2026 Documentary Cor 323 min

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A biography of Jorge Luis Borges working from an exhaustive review of the papers he left, the books he read, the places he went to. And with this, an attempt to decipher a very peculiar life: someone who lived like a hidden, underground warrior, whose cause was literature, literature conceived as a kingdom and as a landscape. If Cold War spies fought from their desks or from an uninhabited house to defend their half of the world, Borges strove from a library to elevate and broaden the territories of his own tribe: the people for whom the most important part of the universe is books, plots and words. This film is devoted to that secret pilgrim (to borrow from Le Carré, the king of all spies). Presented at the Venice Film Festival.

There will be a break between the second and third part in the screenings of the film "Life of Jorge Luis Borges".

argentina international film festivals documentary from word to image art & culture memory

technical sheet

direction

Mariano Llinás

screenplay

Mariano Llinás

cinematography

Agustín Mendilaharzu

editing

Ignacio Codino

sound

Valeria Fernández, Federico Esquerro

music

Gabriel Chwojnik

cast

Ernesto Montequín, Laura Paredes, Milva Leonardi, Nicolás Helft, Pablo Dacal

production

Laura Citarella

produced by

El Pampero Cine

world sales

Luxbox

galeria

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