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Title

Memories of underdevelopment [motion picture] / Miguel Mendoza, Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematograficos (ICAIC).

Publication

New York : New Yorker, 1968.

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Additional Authors

Gutiérrez Alea, Tomás, 1928-1996.

Description

3 film reels (97 min.) : sd., b&w.; 16 mm.

Summary

This film was the first from post-revolutionary Cuba to be released in the United States. Set in the early sixties, it centers on a Europeanized Cuban intellectual critical of his bourgeois family for having left the country, but unable to overcome his alientation and become part of the new Cuban society. The "ultimate outsider," he contents himself by exploiting women, a metaphor for the colonization of Cuba. Documentary and semi-documentary footage are used to depict the "collective consciousness" of the revolutionary process.

Subject

• Feature films
• Motion pictures > Cuba
• Motion pictures > Latin America
• Foreign films > Cuba
• Foreign films > Latin America
• Spanish language films
• Cuba > Fiction
• Latin America > Fiction

Note

• In Spanish with English subtitles.
• Based on a novel by Edmundo Desnoes.

Credits (note)

• Director, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea; screenplay, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Edmundo Desnoes; photography, Ramón Suárez; music, Leo Brower.

Performer (note)

• Sergio Corrieri, Daisy Granados, Eslinda Núñez.

Title

Memories of underdevelopment [motion picture] / Miguel Mendoza, Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematograficos (ICAIC).

Imprint

New York : New Yorker, 1968.

Credits

Director, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea; screenplay, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Edmundo Desnoes; photography, Ramón Suárez; music, Leo Brower.

Cast

Sergio Corrieri, Daisy Granados, Eslinda Núñez.

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Added Author

Gutiérrez Alea, Tomás, 1928-1996.

Branch Call Number

M16 4071 M