Borges: A Life in Poetry

(1998)

Genres: Documentary

Year: 1998

Runtime: 66 мин

Country: Italy

Director: Fernando Arrabal

Cast: Leonardo Mattia Romeo, Alessandro Atti, Roger Benetti, Lucrezia Bompignano, Anna Gloria Mariano, Eva Sambo, Christiane Appreieux, Lubov Lyssenko, Valentin Tereshenko, Andrey Lyssenko

Plot

A peculiar portrait of the Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) drawn by the extravagant and original look of the Spanish writer Fernando Arrabal, who establishes a bold parallelism between Borges' work and opinions and his own creations, both literary and cinematographic.