Los Cuentos de Borges: El Sur
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Duration Language Spanish | Director Carlos Saura Country Argentina | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Release date 1990; November 15, 1992 (London Film Festival) Writer Jorge Luis Borges, Carlos Saura | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
El Sur (English: The South) (1990) is a TV movie written and directed by Carlos Saura and is a chapter in the Spanish TV series Los Cuentos de Borges (English: The Borges Tales). Saura's 55-minute film is based on the short story El Sur by Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges.
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A shy Argentine librarian Juan Dahlman (Oscar Martinez) dreams that he is fatally stabbed on his family's ranch, located in southern Argentina. After suffering a head injury he is ordered to rest until he fully recovers. Dahlman decides to spend his time recovering at his family's ranch, fulfilling his long-held desire to revisiting the ranch. He sets off for the ranch and the destiny that awaits him there.
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Los Cuentos de Borges: El Sur Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA
Los Cuentos de Borges: El Sur IMDb