Memories of Underdevelopment (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Cuba, 1968) is generally recognised as Cuba’s greatest film and one of the best films of the 1960s.
A bourgeois property owner struggles to accept Castro’s revolution. The events of the film are bookended by the 1961 failed CIA plot to overthrow the government and the threat of nuclear war in the missile crisis of 1962.
“Clearly a masterpiece” (Newsweek)
“…a more complex portrait of Cubans than the rest of the world was able to imagine”(Julia Levin)
4K Restoration by Cineteca di Bologna, 2016
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