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Historias del Subdesarrollo

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Historias del Subdesarrollo
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1hr 37min
Genres:
Drama,Romance
Release:
1968
Director:
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Starring:
Sergio Corrieri, Daisy Granados, Eslinda Nunez  ...more
Synopsis: The first Cuban film made after Fidel Castro's revolution to receive widespread distribution (and acclaim) in the United States, Memories of Underdevelopment is not exactly a broad endorsement of Castro's new Cuba. Its protagonist, Sergio (Sergio Correri) is depicted in the opening scenes as happy to see off his wife and parents and friends; they are fleeing Cuba in the wake of the Bay of Pigs invasion for America. He is skeptical of the ability of the Revolution to make a real change in Cuban society, ... Full Synopsis
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Tom Wiener, AMG Review
Unlike I Am Cuba, the other great 1960s film to be produced in Castro-controlled Cuba, Memories of Underdevelopment is decidedly ambivalent about the effects of the Revolution on the island. Its main character, Sergio, is no political animal, though he derides his parents and wife and friends' desertion of their homeland for the bourgeois values of the United States. Placing himself above the masses ... Full Review
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