“Film maker Riri Riza has taken on the challenge of getting the work of one of Indonesia's most controversial writers made into film. Pramoedya Ananta Toer was jailed for 14 years without charge during the Suharto regime and spent 11 of those years on Indonesia's infamous Buru Island prison. While he was there he wrote four historical novels called the Buru Quartet, which were later smuggled out and became bestsellers. Riri Riza plans to make the first book in the Buru quartet, This Earth of Mankind, into a film which tells an epic love story of nation building.”
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