Mario y los perros

Mario y los perros

2019 · 70 min · ★ 7.0 · Documentary

An account of the childhood and youth of the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010, and how the hard experiences he lived during these formative years led him to write and publish his first major work when he was only 26 years old.

Directed by Chema de la Peña · Written by Chema de la Peña

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