Mario Vargas Llosa: The Story Of The Novelist Who Would Be President

MARIO VARGAS LLOSA, one of the worldʼs great novelists, ran for the Presidency of Peru in 1990 - unsuccessfully.

With unprecedented access, this exclusive film followed Vargas Llosa through the most turbulent year of his life to tell this remarkable tale.

From London to Italy to Peru it weaves together his changing relationship with both literature and politics and, using the style and texts of his fiction, tells ʻThe Story of The Novelist Who Would Be Presidentʼ.

Produced and directed by
ANDY HARRIES & PAUL YULE

San Sebastian, 1990
Havana Film Festival 1990