Juan Antonio Borges

Juan Antonio Borges came to Montevideo as a young man to study medicine. In 1919 he founded a small production company with a tailor; their first project, a film about boxing, was abandoned after a quarrel between the partners. Four years later he shot a fiction born of what he had seen of poor patients. Once qualified, he practised for a long time as a country doctor and made no more films. He married Elsa Fernández. For the fortieth anniversary of his film, Montevideo paid him tribute; his daughter Elsa later took part in the restoration.

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• Feature filmSouls on the CoastAlmas de la costaJuan Antonio Borges · 1923Cinema