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Memories of Underdevelopment

Original title: Memorias del subdesarrollo
  • 1968
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 37m
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
4.5K
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Memories of Underdevelopment (1968)
Drama

A Cuban man cycles through his opinions and memories as the threat of foreign invasion intensifies and the rest of his family moves to Miami.A Cuban man cycles through his opinions and memories as the threat of foreign invasion intensifies and the rest of his family moves to Miami.A Cuban man cycles through his opinions and memories as the threat of foreign invasion intensifies and the rest of his family moves to Miami.

  • Director
    • Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
  • Writers
    • Edmundo Desnoes
    • Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
  • Stars
    • Sergio Corrieri
    • Daisy Granados
    • Eslinda Núñez
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.6/10
    4.5K
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    • Director
      • Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
    • Writers
      • Edmundo Desnoes
      • Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
    • Stars
      • Sergio Corrieri
      • Daisy Granados
      • Eslinda Núñez
    • 25User reviews
    • 32Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 2 nominations

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    Sergio Corrieri
    Sergio Corrieri
    • Sergio Carmona Mendoyo
    Daisy Granados
    • Elena
    Eslinda Núñez
    • Noemi
    Omar Valdés
    • Pablo
    René de la Cruz
    • Elena's brother
    Yolanda Farr
    Ofelia González
    Jose Gil Abad
    Daniel Jordan
    Luis López
    Rafael Sosa
    Beatriz Ponchova
    Gilda Hernández
    Julio Vega
    Eduardo Casado Revuelta
      Oscar Alvarez
      José Fraga
      Juana Alburquerque
      • Housing Inspector
      • Director
        • Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
      • Writers
        • Edmundo Desnoes
        • Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
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      • Trivia
        The first film to be made in post-revolutionary Cuba to be released in the United States.
      • Quotes

        Sergio Carmona Mendoyo: One thing about people that upsets me is their inability to sustain something without collapsing. Take Elena: she was totally inconsistent. Didn't relate things. That's a symptom of underdevelopment: the inability to relate things, to gain experience, develop. It's difficult here because women are conditioned by sentiments and culture. A soft environment. People waste talents on inconsistent adaptations. They always need someone to think for them.

      • Connections
        Featured in New Cinema of Latin America: Cinema of the Humble (1983)

      User reviews25

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      Not underdeveloped as a Film!
      There is much that is wonderful about this film, the first Cuban film to be released in the U.S. after the Revolution. I found the ending rather abrupt and unsatisfying and some of the political discussions were long-winded (the fast disappearing subtitles on the video didn't help), but overall "Memories" was vibrant and surprising. The film is made with a lot of the spirit of the French New Wave, lots of flashy film techniques. It felt surprisingly open and honest to me, to have come out of Cuba at the time it did. It depicts an intellectual who has opted to remain in Cuba despite his well-off family and his wife having taken off for the U.S. He stays, wanting to see "how everything turns out". Afflicted with a rather massive case of both ennui and horniness, the film captures his musings on the state of Cuban society, at times satirical and sensual, but always cut through with a pervading sense of melancholy. It makes me want to hunt down more works by its late director, Tomas Gutierrez Alea.
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      • Oct 19, 2006

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      • Release date
        • May 17, 1973 (United States)
      • Country of origin
        • Cuba
      • Official sites
        • Mr Bongo Films
        • Official site (Japan)
      • Languages
        • Spanish
        • English
      • Also known as
        • The cuban thing
      • Filming locations
        • Havana, Cuba
      • Production companies
        • Cuban State Film
        • Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industrias Cinematográficos (ICAIC)
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      Box office

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      • Gross US & Canada
        • $29,647
      • Opening weekend US & Canada
        • $8,244
        • Jan 14, 2018
      • Gross worldwide
        • $33,103
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      Technical specs

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      • Runtime
        1 hour 37 minutes
      • Color
        • Black and White
      • Sound mix
        • Mono
      • Aspect ratio
        • 1.66 : 1

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