Memories of underdevelopment Memorias del subdesarrollo
DVD - 2018
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?
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- Film adaptations
Fiction films
Feature films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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[Irvington, New York] :
The Criterion Collection
[2018]
- Language
- Spanish
English - Other Authors
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- Edition
- Two-DVD special edition
- Item Description
- Based on the novel by Edmundo Desnoes.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1968.
Wide screen (1.66:1).
Special features include 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; trailer; essay by author Joshua Jelly-Schapiro. - Physical Description
- 2 videodiscs (98 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- DVD, NTSC, region 1.
- Production Credits
- Director of photography, Ramón F. Suárez ; editing, Nelson Rodríguez ; music, Leo Brouwer.
- ISBN
- 9781681434940
- Disc 1. Memorias del subdesarrollo
- Theatrical trailer
- Disc 2. Special features: B. Ruby Rich and José Antonio Évora (interview with the film critics; 2018)
- Edmundo Desnoes (interview with the author of the novel Memorias del subdesarrollo; 2018)
- Titón : from Havana to "Guantanamera" (documentary by Mirtha Ibarra, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, presenting his life and career; 2008)
- Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (segment from an audio interview with the director by Silvia Oroz for her 1989 book about the director)
- Daisy Granados (segment of an interview with the actress recorded for the Visual History Program at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; 2017)
- Nelson Rodríguez (segment of an interview with the film editor recorded for the Visual History Program at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; 2017)
