Memories of underdevelopment
By: director, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Contributors: Corrieri, Sergio, actor; Granados, Daisy, actor; Núñez, Eslinda, actor; Valdés, Omar, actor; Desnoes, Edmundo, 1930-; Criterion Collection (Firm)
Edition: Special edition.
Series: Criterion collection; Criterion collection
Published: 2018
Language: spa
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 98
ISBN-13: 9781681434940
Subjects: Politics and government; Teatro; Películas cinematográficas; Drama; Gobierno; Política; Social conditions; History
Description: 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?
Notes: Title from sell sheet.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1968.

Wide screen (1.66:1).

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; trailer; essay by author Joshua Jelly-Schapiro.

Sergio Corrieri, Daisy Granados, Eslinda Nunez, Omar Valdes, Rene De La Cruz.

DVD.

Spanish dialogue; English subtitles.