Mario Vargas Losa was also a director and actor

Adapting literary works with the cinematic world is a very frequent thing, and the action of Peruvi Mario Vargas Losa It was no exception.

The first movie was made in our country. The director Jorge Fones was the person responsible for guidance BaccalaureateThe work was published in 1967, which was achieved in 1973, after Jose Alonso, Hylena Rojo, Carmen Montegue and Augusta Benedico as heroes, who saw the story of Coellar, who faces young people and in adulthood from the loss of sexual organs when he was a child after attacking a dog. Despite the completed work and two nominations for Ariel, the late writer was not satisfied with the outcome of this film.

Several modifications were made, and the first was BaccalaureateIn Mexico. There was a very nice text written by Jose Emilio Pacico, but unfortunately it was rejected by the producers. “They made another text with a professional screenwriter and the problem was that he developed the story to the extent that the film had nothing to do with the text,” Vargas Llosa said in the program. The pleasure of your eyes From tvperú.

In 1975 and with Spanish director Jose Maria Guterres Santos, Mario Vargas Losa appeared as a film maker who adapts his novel Pantalists and visitors (1973) Inspired by a true story that focused on Pantaleón Pantoja, the army that pledges to issue prostitutes to its superiors.

It is a movie that should not be seen. Vargas Llosa, who has a special performance as an army, said.

This first cinematic version was filmed in the Dominican Republic, as the Peruvian government did not allow it to be filmed in Peru and was calculated inside its team with the Spanish Jose Skrstan, the Mexican Katie Gourado, the Mexican Cuban Rosa Carmina and Peruvian Camocha.

In 1975, Pantaleón and visitors had Mario Vargas Llosa as a screenwriter.

In 1999 another Peru adaptation to Pantalists and visitors Who was responsible for the Peruvian director Francisco Lombardy. He had the actions of Salvador del Solar and Angi Sebida.

Lombardy also produced another work by the Nobel Prize winner: City and dogs. It was in 1985, when Lombardy moved to the big screen the story of a group of young people studying, in a violent environment, at the Longio Prado Military School and has tragic consequences. For this film, Francisco Lombardy won the Best Director of the Eighth Edition of the San Sebastian Film Festival.

Lombardy adapted to City and dogs It looks very good for me. “It is a compact version, because it had a small budget, but I think the spirit of the novel was well created by the photos,” Vargas Llosa said in an interview with Ricardo Bedoya.

Another novel was adapted from Peruvian Aunt Julia and writer, Written in 1977, which adapted to the English language under the title Tomorrow … Under the supervision of British John Emile, the film in 1950 New Orleans was more inclined to comedy and tells the story of a young man, embodied by Keno Reeves, who aspires to be a writer and falls in love with his political aunt, Julia, which is played by Barbara Hershey. This story is based on the true life of Vargas Llosa.

The tone was tomorrow … directed by John Emile, based on the aunt Julia and the writer.

Director Peru Luis Lusa, the cousin of the late writer, took a novel Goat party (2000) On the big screen in 2005. The film focuses on the last days of the dictatorship of Rafael Leonidas Trugillo in the Dominican Republic. The film got Tomás Milián, Oscar nominated Isabella Russelli, Paul Freeman and Juan Diego Bhutto. The film was the Prime Minister at the Berlin Film Festival in 2006.

The latest air conditioner is Mala Girl’s Vunos From 2006. It was converted into a TV series, the novel tells the love story between Ricardo and Autillia. The series is Macarena Achaga, Juan Pablo Di Pace, Fernando Soto, Olfa MasMoudi and Fernando Cayo.

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