| Memories of Underdevelopment | |
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| Directed by | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea |
| Written by | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Edmundo Desnoes |
| Starring | Sergio Corrieri Daisy Granados Eslinda Nuñez |
| Music by | Leo Brouwer |
| Distributed by | ICAIC |
| Release date(s) | 19 August 1968 17 May 1973 |
| Running time | 96 min. |
| Country | Cuba |
| Language | Spanish |
Memories of Underdevelopment (Spanish: Memorias del Subdesarrollo) is a seminal 1968 Latin American film from Cuba. Directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, the story is based on a novel by Edmundo Desnoes. It was Alea's fifth film, and probably his most famous worldwide. The film gathered several awards at international film festivals.
Sergio, a wealthy bourgeois aspiring writer, decides to stay in Cuba even though his wife and friends flee to Miami. Sergio looks back over the changes in Cuba, from the Cuban Revolution to the missile crisis, the effect of living in an underdeveloped country, and his relations with his girlfriends Elena and Hanna. Memories of Underdevelopment is a complex character study of alienation during the turmoil of social changes. The film is told in a highly subjective point of view through a fragmented narrative that resembles the way memories function.
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