Memorias del subdesarrollo
Subtitle: Memories of underdevelopment
By: produced by Miguel Mendoza ; written by Edmundo Desnoes ; directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Contributors: Corrieri, Sergio, actor; Granados, Daisy, actor; Núñez, Eslinda, actor
Series: The Criterion collection -- 943; Criterion collection -- 943.
Published: 2018
Language: spa
Format: [videorecording] =
Number of pages: 98
Subjects: Drama; Intellectual life; Man-woman relationships; Film adaptations; History
Other titles: Memories of underdevelopment
Description: In the early 1960s, a Europeanized Cuban intellectual, too idealistic to leave for Miami, is also too decadent to fit into the new Cuban society.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1968.

Based on the novel by Edmundo Desnoes.

LPCM mono, wide screen 1.66:1.

Essay by author Joshua Jelly-Schapiro in container.

Features: new interviews with film critics B. Ruby Rich and José Antonio Évora; new interview with novelist and screenwriter Edmundo Desnoes; Titón : from Havana to Guantanamera (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 Program collection; trailer; new English subtitle translation.

Sergio Corrieri, Daisy Granados, Eslinda Núñez, Omar Valdés, René de la Cruz.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

This is a Blu-ray disc made for Blu-ray disc players and will not play in standard DVD players.

For private home use only.

In Spanish with optional English subtitles.