Blind Monk with Blue Eyes?


Where have I seen this elderly actor before? Unfortunately, I can't remember the name of the monk he was playing, otherwise would have searched from the cast list of the film.

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Here he is: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0149923/.

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It is jorge of Burgos. He is played by a russian actor so i don't know what nationality he is supposed to be in the movie, but in the book Jorge is Spanish

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Umberto Eco said many times that this character (a blind bibliotecarian called Jorge) obviously was an explicit homage to his favourite writer, the argentine Jorge Luis Borges who also was blind, bibliotecarian and loved labyrinths like the one in The Name of the Rose.

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Umberto Eco said many times that this character (a blind bibliotecarian called Jorge) obviously was an explicit homage to his favourite writer, the argentine Jorge Luis Borges who also was blind, bibliotecarian and loved labyrinths like the one in The Name of the Rose.

That is all true and interesting, but the OP's question was about the actor and I answered it almost three years ago.

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Sure you did. I was just adding some interesting complementary information to the thread.

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Fair enough.

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Jorge was blind due to his cataracts, which develop with advanced age, and that was why his eyes looked cloudy.

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