Borges: A Life in Poetry (1998)
Documentary
Overview
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.
Cast
- Leonardo Mattia Romeo as The Child
- Alessandro Atti as The Poet Borges
- Roger Benetti as The Executioner
- Lucrezia Bompignano as Weeping Woman #1
- Anna Gloria Mariano as Weeping Woman #2
- Eva Sambo as Weeping Woman #3
- Christiane Appreieux as Weeping Woman #4
- Lubov Lyssenko as Painter #1
- Valentin Tereshenko as Painter #2
- Andrey Lyssenko as Painter #3