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This film by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea is the most renowned work in the history of Cuban cinema. After his wife and family flee in the wake of the Bay of Pigs invasion, the bourgeois intellectual Sergio (Sergio Corrieri) passes his days wandering Havana in idle reflection, his amorous entanglements and political ambivalence gradually giving way to a mounting sense of alienation. With this adaptation of an innovative novel by Edmundo Desnoes, Gutiérrez Alea developed a cinematic style as radical as the times he was chronicling, creating a collage of vivid impressions through the use of experimental editing techniques, archival material, and spontaneously shot street scenes. Intimate and densely layered, Memories of Underdevelopment provides an indictment of its protagonist’s disengagement and an extraordinary glimpse of life in postrevolutionary Cuba.Memories of Underdevelopment was restored by the Cineteca di Bologna at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory in association with Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC). Restoration funded by the George Lucas Family Foundation and The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project.
Original Release
05/17/1968
US Release
05/17/1968
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Cast
Name | Character |
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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 | |
Rafael Sosa |
Directors
Writers
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Edmundo Desnoes
Cast
Name | Character |
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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 | |
Rafael Sosa | |
Beatriz Ponchova | |
Gilda Hernández | |
Julio Vega | |
Eduardo Casado Revuelta | (as Eduardo Casado) |
Oscar Alvarez | |
José Fraga | |
Juana Alburquerque | Housing Inspector |
Marlene Acosta | |
Fausto Pinelo | |
Celia Quiñones |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Miguel Mendoza | Producer |