MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT (1968)

Author Edmundo Desnoes present for Q&A following the screening.

A true classic of Cuban cinematography, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s seminal film will be screened in a restored and remastered version. An introspective drama that unfolds during the missile crisis, it tells the story of a privileged bourgeois who has decided to stay in Havana after his family leaves the island seeking exile in Miami.

*Restored by Cineteca de Bologna at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory in associate with Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC). Restoration funded by The George Lucas Family Foundation and The FilmFoundation’s World Cinema Project.