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Jorge Luis Borges is a Actor and Scriptwriter Argentin born on 24 august 1899 at Buenos Aires (Argentine)
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges (24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986), known as Jorge Luis Borges ([ˈxorxe ˈlwis ˈβorxes] About this sound audio ), was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator who was born in Buenos Aires. His work embraces the "character of unreality in all literature". His most famous books, Ficciones (1944) and The Aleph (El Aleph in Spanish) (1949), are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes such as dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, animals, fictional writers, philosophy, religion and God.
Borges's works have contributed to philosophical literature and also to both the fantasy and magical realism genres. The genre of magical realism reacted against the dominant realism and naturalism of the nineteenth century. Critic Ángel Flores, the first to use the term, considers the beginning of the movement to be the release of Borges's A Universal History of Infamy (Historia universal de la infamia in Spanish) (1935). Scholars have also suggested that Borges's progressive blindness helped him to create innovative literary symbols through imagination. His late poems dialogue with such cultural figures as Spinoza, Camões, and Virgil.
In 1914 his family moved to Switzerland, where he studied at the Collège de Genève. The family travelled widely in Europe, including stays in Spain. On his return to Argentina in 1921, Borges began publishing his poems and essays in surrealist literary journals. He also worked as a librarian and public lecturer. In 1955 he was appointed director of the National Public Library and professor of Literature at the University of Buenos Aires. He became completely blind at the age of fifty five, and was unable to read from this point on, never learning braille. In 1961 he came to international attention when he received the first ever Prix International, sharing the award with Samuel Beckett. In 1971 he won the Jerusalem Prize. His work was translated and published widely in the United States and in Europe. Borges himself was fluent in several languages. Borges dedicated his final work, The Conspirators, to the city of Geneva, Switzerland.
His international fame was consolidated in the 1960s, aided by his works being available in English, by the "Latin American Boom" and by the success of Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. Writer and essayist J. M. Coetzee said of him: "He, more than anyone, renovated the language of fiction and thus opened the way to a remarkable generation of Spanish American novelists."
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Jorge Luis Borges
Birth name Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo
Nationality Argentine
Birth 24 august 1899 at Buenos Aires (Argentine)
Death 14 june 1986 (at 86 years) at Geneva (Suisse)
Awards Legion of Honour, Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Miguel de Cervantes Prize, Grand Merit Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Nationality Argentine
Birth 24 august 1899 at Buenos Aires (Argentine)
Death 14 june 1986 (at 86 years) at Geneva (Suisse)
Awards Legion of Honour, Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Miguel de Cervantes Prize, Grand Merit Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Borges's works have contributed to philosophical literature and also to both the fantasy and magical realism genres. The genre of magical realism reacted against the dominant realism and naturalism of the nineteenth century. Critic Ángel Flores, the first to use the term, considers the beginning of the movement to be the release of Borges's A Universal History of Infamy (Historia universal de la infamia in Spanish) (1935). Scholars have also suggested that Borges's progressive blindness helped him to create innovative literary symbols through imagination. His late poems dialogue with such cultural figures as Spinoza, Camões, and Virgil.
In 1914 his family moved to Switzerland, where he studied at the Collège de Genève. The family travelled widely in Europe, including stays in Spain. On his return to Argentina in 1921, Borges began publishing his poems and essays in surrealist literary journals. He also worked as a librarian and public lecturer. In 1955 he was appointed director of the National Public Library and professor of Literature at the University of Buenos Aires. He became completely blind at the age of fifty five, and was unable to read from this point on, never learning braille. In 1961 he came to international attention when he received the first ever Prix International, sharing the award with Samuel Beckett. In 1971 he won the Jerusalem Prize. His work was translated and published widely in the United States and in Europe. Borges himself was fluent in several languages. Borges dedicated his final work, The Conspirators, to the city of Geneva, Switzerland.
His international fame was consolidated in the 1960s, aided by his works being available in English, by the "Latin American Boom" and by the success of Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. Writer and essayist J. M. Coetzee said of him: "He, more than anyone, renovated the language of fiction and thus opened the way to a remarkable generation of Spanish American novelists."
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Harto The Borges (2000)
, 1h20Directed by Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about writers, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Jorge Luis Borges, Osvaldo Bayer
Roles Self (archive footage)
Rating60%
Montes-Bradley approaches Jorge Luis Borges on film. The portrait of Borges emerges as a counterpoint to the interviewees, some of which evoke scandal and most of which cut through stereotypes and presuppositions surrounding this key figure. The title of the film is a reference to a quote from the poem “Borges and I”, slightly modify to pay a tribute to the writer´s billings. The strategy employed by Montes-Bradley when it comes to Borges, a writer of whom almost everything has been said, consists on giving the word to the writer himself and to a select group of intellectuals who dwell on the margins of the Argentine cultural aparatik. Montes-Bradley, however, does not exhibit Borges like a painting to be admired but rather as counterpoint to the observations of others. We are neither the hapless witnesses of another saccharine celebration of Jorge Luis Borges, nor are we forced to endure another fashionable defrocking of an idol. The Borges that emerges from the interaction of the testimonies in this documentary surges from the heat of the debate, from the strong opinions, some certainly scandalous, most politically incorrect.
Soriano (1999)
, 1h20Directed by Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about writers, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Osvaldo Bayer, Fernando Birri, Federico Luppi, Jorge Luis Borges, Héctor Olivera, Aída Bortnik
Rating61%
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Singing Behind Screens (2003)
, 1h38Directed by Ermanno Olmi
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Biography, Adventure, Historical, Musical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films
Actors Bud Spencer, Jun Ichikawa
Roles Short Story
Rating62%
Dans une maison close chinoise, un vieux capitaine raconte, sur une scène, l'histoire de la célèbre pirate Ching Shih, veuve du capitaine Ching.
Death and the Compass (1992)
, 1h36Directed by Alex Cox
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Peter Boyle, Miguel Sandoval, Christopher Eccleston, Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez, Pedro Armendáriz (fils), Alex Cox
Roles Short Story
Rating59%
Warriors and Prisoners (1990)
, 1h39Origin France
Genres Drama, Adventure, Western
Actors Dominique Sanda, Leslie Caron, China Zorrilla, Federico Luppi, Duilio Marzio
Roles Story
Rating67%
En Patagonie, les années 1880 voient les derniers affrontements entre Indiens et colons. Le colonel Garay, commandant de l'avant-poste fortifié d'un village, ambitionne de faire de l'Argentine un grand pays moderne et, pour s'y établir, accueille sa jeune femme Marguerite venue de Paris. Garay prépare l'arrivée de la voie ferrée et cette nouvelle infrastructure attire autant d'émigrants comme l'institutrice, que la convoitise d'autochtones comme Maître Pacheco qui rêve d'accaparer le plus de terre possible. Madame Yvonne, patronne de la maison close locale va l'y aider moyennant des compensations. Pendant que Marguerite, désorientée dans ce Nouveau Monde, s'attache à civiliser une jeune Indienne captive, la garnison prépare une fête pour l'arrivée du train et l'on commence à attribuer les lopins de terre aux soldats les plus valeureux. Les Indiens profitent de ces moments de relâche de surveillance pour passer à l'attaque. Garay y laisse sa vie, ce qui incite Marguerite à demeurer en Argentine.
The Intruder (1980)
, 1h40Origin Bresil
Genres Drama, Horror, Historical, Western
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors José de Abreu, Maria Zilda Bethlem
Roles Novel
Rating64%
Ghazal (1976)
Directed by Masoud Kimiai
Origin Iran
Genres Drama
Actors Mohammad Ali Fardin, Pouri Banayi, Parvin Soleimani, Saeid Pirdoost, Nosrat Karimi
Roles Original Story
Rating63%
Hojjat and Zeinolabedin are two brothers that make a living by forestry. They have a steady life until Hojjat brings a prostitute from the city to the jungles. She keeps the house and washes and does the house chores and also makes love to the brothers respectively. The two brothers fall in love with her and can not put up with the situation. They kill the girl, set fire on their house and leave the jungle for their unpredictable destiny.
The Others (1975)
, 1h30Directed by Hugo Santiago
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Patrice Dally, Bruno Devoldère, Noëlle Châtelet, Jean-Daniel Pollet, Roger Planchon, Marc Monnet
Roles Ecrivain
Rating66%
Roger Spinoza, libraire à Paris, tente de comprendre les raisons qui ont pu pousser son fils Mathieu au suicide.Il rencontre Valérie, dernière amante de Mathieu, et en tombe à son tour amoureux. Des événements étranges se déroulent autour de Roger et Valérie, et mèneront à un drame.
The Dead Man (1975)
Directed by Héctor Olivera
Genres Western
Actors Francisco Rabal, Rey Charol
Roles Short Story
Rating59%
Los Orilleros (1975)
Genres Drama
Actors Alberto Argibay, Milagros de la Vega, Inda Ledesma, Osvaldo Terranova
Rating65%
The Spider's Stratagem (1971)
, 1h40Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors Giulio Brogi, Alida Valli, Tino Scotti, Giuseppe Bertolucci
Roles Original Story
Rating68%
Athos Magnani, a young researcher, returns to Tara, where his father was killed before his birth, at the request of his mistress, Draifa. The father, also named Athos Magnani (a wartime anti-fascist hero) and looking exactly like the son, was killed by a fascist in 1936—or so says Draifa, the town statue, and everyone in the city. As the son untangles the web of lies this story is constructed from, he finds himself ensnared in the same web.
Invasion (1969)
, 2h1Directed by Hugo Santiago
Origin Argentine
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Crime
Themes Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films
Actors Olga Zubarry, Lautaro Murúa, Martín Adjemián, Hedwig Schlichter, Aldo Barbero
Roles Histoire
Rating71%
A group of men commanded by an older man attempts to stop an invasion to the city of Aquilea.
Man on Pink Corner (1962)
Directed by René Mugica
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Francisco Petrone, Susana Campos, Walter Vidarte, Alberto Barcel, Adolfo Linvel, María Esther Podestá
Roles Story
Rating68%
Days of Hate (1954)
, 1h10Directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson
Origin Argentine
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Duilio Marzio
Roles Histoire
Rating65%
Emma Zunz est employée dans l'usine textile où son père, autrefois caissier, fut contraint de fuir sous la fausse accusation de détournement de fonds. Lorsqu'elle apprend que celui-ci s'est suicidé, elle met au point un stratagème diabolique afin de venger sa mémoire…