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El hombre de la esquina rosada / Radiotelevisión Española ; director, Miguel Picazo.
LIBRA VHS PQ7797.B635 .H652 1996
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986--Film adaptations.
- Borges, Jorge Luis.
- Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986.
- Gauchos--Argentina--Drama.
- Gauchos.
- Argentina.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Motion pictures, Spanish.
- Film adaptations.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (55 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities, [1996]
- Language Note:
- In Spanish.
- System Details:
- VHS.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- Summary:
- A dramatization of one of Borge's finest short stories in which a killer is pardoned and released from prison, so he can be murdered by his victim's friends. Its subject is the world of the gaucho; passion, murder, and the ceaseless rhythm of cafe dancing are diffracted through the author's surrealistic lens.
- Participant:
- Susana Mara, Lautaro Murúa.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Jose Luis Cabañas ; script, Mercedes Segura ; music, Jose Nieto.
- Notes:
- Based on the story by Jorge Luis Borges.
- Includes public performance rights for University of Pennsylvania only. Streaming not allowed without a separate license.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- OCLC:
- 35708725
- Publisher Number:
- FFH 153 Films for the Humanities
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