Memories of Underdevelopment
Memories of Underdevelopment is a 1968 Cuban film written and directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea.
The story is based on a novel by Edmundo Desnoes entitled" Inconsolable Memories".
It was Alea's fifth film, and probably his most famous worldwide.
The film gathered several awards at international film festivals.
It was elected the 144th best film of all time in the Sight& Sound 2012 poll.
It was ranked by the New York Times as one of the 10 best films of 1968.
Ian Barry (director)
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Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
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Edmundo Desnoes
Edmundo Desnoes( Havana, Cuba, 1930), is a Cuban writer, author of the novel" Memorias del subdesarrolloMemories of Underdevelopment"), a complex story depicting the alienation of a Cuban bourgeois struggling to adapt to the process of the Revolution.
He originally called the work" Inconsolable Memories" in the first English edition.
The book was adapted in 1968 into a seminal Latin American film," Memories of Underdevelopment", by the director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, who decided on the name" Memories Of Underdevelopment," the name by which it is today known in the English- speaking world.
During the 1960s and 1970s Desnoes worked as an art critic and wrote many essays.
He has lived in New York City since 1979.
In 2008 he published" Memorias del Desarrollo" a follow- up to his original novel which was adapted by Miguel Coyula into the 2010 movie Memories of Overdevelopment.
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (December 11, 1928 – April 16, 1996) was a Cuban filmmaker.
He wrote and directed more than 20 features, documentaries, and short films, which are known for his sharp insight into post-Revolutionary Cuba, and possess a delicate balance between dedication to the revolution and criticism of the social, economic, and political conditions of the country.
Gutiérrez's work is representative of a cinematic movement occurring in the 1960s and 1970s known collectively as the New Latin American Cinema.
This collective movement, also referred to by various writers by specific names such as “Third Cinema”, “Cine Libre”, and “Imperfect Cinema,” was concerned largely with the problems of neocolonialism and cultural identity.
The movement rejected both the commercial perfection of the Hollywood style, and the auteur-oriented European art cinema, for a cinema created as a tool for political and social change.
Due not in a small part to the filmmakers’ lack of resources, aesthetic was of secondary importance to cinema's social function.
The movement's main goal was to create films in which the viewer became an active, self-aware participant in the discourse of the film.
Viewers were presented with an analysis of a current problem within society that as of that time had no clear solution, hoping to make the audience aware of the problem and to leave the theater willing to become actors of social change.
Harish Raj
Harish Raj (born 26 July) is an Indian film and television actor and director based in Kannada Film Industry.
He made his acting debut in the television serial "Hosa Chiguru Hale Beru" in 1996 and his debut in feature films was with "Doni Saagali" in 1998.
After featuring in a string of films and serials, Raj moved into film direction with "Kalaakaar" (2009).He also as acted in several Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam television serials and also in Hindi films.
He also performed in television commercials.
He is best known as an actor in critically acclaimed films such as "DweepaKoormavataraThaayi Saheba" and "Kaanuru Heggadathi".
Gun (2011 film)
Gun is a 2011 Kannada film in the action genre starring Harish Raj and Mallika Kapoor in the lead roles.
Nikitha also plays an important role.
The film has been directed and written by Harish Raj and is jointly produced by K. Murali under Nishanth Constructions.
The music was composed by Ronnie Raphel.
Kalyan and Kaviraj wrote the lyrics for the songs.
The film was released on 25 February 2011.
Hanro Smitsman
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Question: Do director of film Memories Of Underdevelopment and director of film Gun (2011 Film) have the same nationality?
Answer: no