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Memorias del subdesarrollo = Memories of underdevelopment / El Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos presenta ; realización, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea ; producción, Miguel Mendoza.
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 943.
- Criterion collection ; 943
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Politics and government.
- Social conditions.
- Cuba--Social conditions--1959-1990--Drama.
- Cuba.
- Cuba--Politics and government--1959-1990--Drama.
- Cuba--History--1959-1990.
- History.
- Genre:
- Film adaptations.
- Fiction films.
- Feature films.
- Foreign language films -- Spanish.
- Drama.
- History.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (98 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (1 folded leaf : illustrations ; 47 x 37 cm, folded to 19 x 12 cm).
- 4 3/4 in.
- Edition:
- Two-DVD special edition.
- Other Title:
- Memories of underdevelopment
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In Spanish; optional subtitles in English.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; widescreen (1.66:1 aspect ratio) presentation; Dolby Audio monaural.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby Digital
- widescreen (1.66:1)
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- Sergio, 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, a young virgin girl he seeks to mold into the image of his ex-wife, but at what cost to himself?
- Participant:
- Sergio Corrieri, Daisy Granados, Eslinda Núñez, Omar Valdés, René de la Cruz.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Ramón F. Suárez; editor, Nelson Rodríguez; music, Leo Brouwer; screenplay by Edmundo Desnoes and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea.
- Notes:
- Based on Memorias del subdesarrollo / [by] Edmundo Desnoes.
- Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1968.
- Special features; new interviews; Titón : from Havana to "Guantanamera," (a 2008 feature-length documentary on director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's life and career); segment from a 1989 audio interview with Gutiérrez Alea; segments from 2017 interviews with actor Daisy Granados and editor Nelson Rodríguez from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' visual history collection archives; original theatrical trailer; essay by author Joshua Jelly-Schapiro (on insert).
- ISBN:
- 9781681434940
- 1681434946
- OCLC:
- 1044740191
- Publisher Number:
- 715515219815
- CC2937D The Criterion Collection
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