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    Memories of Underdevelopment

    Original title: Memorias del subdesarrollo
    • 19681968
    • Not RatedNot Rated
    • 1h 37min
    IMDb RATING
    7.7/10
    4K
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    Memorias del subdesarrollo (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.

    IMDb RATING
    7.7/10
    4K
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    • Director
      • Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
    • Writers
      • Edmundo Desnoes(novel "Memórias Inconsolables")
      • Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
    • Stars
      • Sergio Corrieri
      • Daisy Granados
      • Eslinda Núñez
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
    • Writers
      • Edmundo Desnoes(novel "Memórias Inconsolables")
      • Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
    • Stars
      • Sergio Corrieri
      • Daisy Granados
      • Eslinda Núñez
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    • 23User reviews
    • 44Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 2 nominations

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    Sergio Corrieri
    Sergio Corrieri
    • Sergio Carmona Mendoyoas Sergio Carmona Mendoyo
    Daisy Granados
    • Elenaas Elena
    Eslinda Núñez
    • Noemias Noemi
    Omar Valdés
    • Pabloas Pablo
    René de la Cruz
    • Elena's brotheras Elena's brother
    Yolanda Farr
    Ofelia González
    Jose Gil Abad
    Daniel Jordan
    Luis López
    Rafael Sosa
    Eduardo Casado Revuelta
    René Depestre
    • Selfas Self…
    Edmundo Desnoes
    • Selfas Self
    Pello el Afrokán
    Jack Gelber
    • Selfas Self
    Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
    Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
    • Selfas Self
    Gilda Hernández
    • Director
      • Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
    • Writers
      • Edmundo Desnoes(novel "Memórias Inconsolables") (screenplay)
      • Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
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    Storyline

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    Sergio (Sergio Corrieri), through his life following the departure of his wife, parents and friends in the wake of the Bay of Pigs incident. Alone in a brave new world, Sergio observes the constant threat of foreign invasion while chasing young women all over Havana before finally meeting Elena (Daisy Granados), a young virgin girl he seeks to mould into the image of his ex-wife, but at what cost to himself? —Mr Bongo
    cubacuban missile crisisnew latin american cinemafidel castrohavana cuba6 more
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      • Drama
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      • Not Rated
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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Alea was heavily influenced in his style by Alain Resnais' Hiroshima mon amour (1959).
    • 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.

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

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    10/10
    Memoiras del subdesarrollo is a stunning look into post Revolutionary Cuba.
    Memorias del subdesarrolo (memories of the underdeveloped) is a look into the life of a bourgeois young writer who decides to stay in his native Cuba following the Cuban revolution, and enters himself into a life of detachment, seclusion, and avoidance. Sergio (the writer) is juxtaposed with Elna (a young woman following the trends that are dictated to her) to show a clash in idealism, values, and moral that leads to dramatic court scene that ultimately puts in question the current state of Cuba opposed to the past. Alea's use of Sergio, Elena, Pablo (a petty bourgeois that flees to Miami), and the court shows Alea's insight into the great social change that followed the revolution. Through the course of the film you see the change in society that spurns it's, once, culturally elite to become detached from there surroundings and society, leaving only two options: flight, and seclusion. This film is a great look into a society, and a man trying to escape from it. .
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    • radar-17
    • Nov 25, 1999

    Details

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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
      • Erinnerung an die Unterentwicklung
    • 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
      • 1h 37min
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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