Memories of underdevelopment
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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.
Credits
- Directed by
- Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
- Written by
- Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Edmundo Desnoes
- Cast
- Daisy Granados, Sergio Corrieri, Yolanda Farr, Eslinda Núñez
- Cinematography
- Ramón F. Suárez
- Music
- Leo Brouwer
- Edited by
- Nelson Rodríguez Zurbarán
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Sources
- 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, description, catalog record
- Wikidata · Q2645467 ↗ — country, genre, credits
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