Pramoedya Ananta Toer Documentary Part 1 by Arngrim Ytterhus

This film presents Pramoedya Ananta Toers dramatic life, his main work and the historical background in Indonesia through colony rule and dictatorship. The Indonesian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer was several times Asias candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature. He created his main novels when he lived under inhuman conditions as a political prisoner on the remote island of Buru. He told stories to his fellow inmates as a source of hope and survival. During his years on the prison island it was a growing international pressure for Pramoedyas release, led by Günter Grass, and in the end his stories found their way through strange channels to readers around the world. The film was made by Arngrim Ytterhus from Norway, a dedicated reader of Pramoedyas books.