Life of Jorge Luis Borges

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Life of Jorge Luis Borges (2026)

Directed by Mariano Llinás

Documentary · 5h 30m

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).

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Cast

Jorge Luis Borges Self (archive footage)
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Ernesto Montequín Montequín
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Nicolás Helft Helft Laura Paredes
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Milva Leonardi Pablo Dacal

Crew

Director
Mariano Llinás
Director of Photography
Agustín Mendilaharzu
Editor
Ignacio Codino
Producer
Laura Citarella

Details

Original title
Biografía de Jorge Luis Borges
Release date
2026-09-06
Runtime
5h 30m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
ES
Countries
Argentina
Production
El Pampero Cine