A World for Julius (Spanish: Un mundo para Julius) is a 2021 drama film written, co-produced and directed by Rossana DÃÂaz Costa. The film is based on the homonymous book by the author Alfredo Bryce Echenique.
Julius, an aristocratic boy, lives with many servants in the family mansion in Lima in the late 1950s. As he grows up, he loses his innocence and gains understanding of the inequalities and injustices of the adult world.
The actors participating in this film are:
First plan for a movie adaption initialized in 2008 with the involvement of the screenplay Senel paz and Alfredo Bryce Echenique. The initial cast include several top notch names like Patricia Velasquez, Carlos Bardem, Oliver Martinez and Karina Lombard, but the project was canceled for the production company.
A new attempt to resurface the production in 2012 end in the same way.
Filming, entirely in Lima, began in October 2019 and lasted five weeks.
The film had a planned television release in 2020 but it was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The film premiered on October 15, 2021, at the San Diego International Film Festival. It was finally released commercially on November 11, 2021. On April 28, 2022, the film was premiered in Berlin by Latin Quarter Distribution.
The film drew more than 11,500 viewers in its opening weekend in theaters. By its fifth week, the film had drawn more than 40,000 viewers.