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Writers:
Edmundo Desnoes (novel)
Edmundo Desnoes (screenplay)
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Release Date:
17 May 1973 (USA) more
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Sergio, a wealthy bourgeois aspiring writer, decides to stay in Cuba even though his wife and friends flee to Miami... more | add synopsis
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3 wins more
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An excellent, telling perspective of post-revolutionary Cuba more (11 total)

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Also Known As:
Historias del subdesarrollo
Inconsolable Memories
Memories of Underdevelopment (USA)
Erinnerung an die Unterentwicklung (West Germany) (TV title) [de]
Memórias do Subdesenvolvimento (Brazil) [pt]
Memorie del sottosviluppo (Italy) [it]
Mnimes ypanaptyxis (Greece) [el]
Muistoja alikehityksen ajoilta (Finland) [fi]
Wspomnienia (Poland) [pl]
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Runtime:
97 min | West Germany:90 min (TV)
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1.66 : 1 more
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Alea was heavily influenced in his style by Alain Resnais' _Hiroshima Mon Amour_. more
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Followed by Memorias del desarrollo (2010) more

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6 out of 10 people found the following review useful.
An excellent, telling perspective of post-revolutionary Cuba, 11 December 1998
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Author: anonymous from Tufts University

In this excellent perspective of post-revolutionary Cuba, we see how Sergio has decided to ignore the changes in the world around him even after his parents and wife leave for Miami. Instead he stays in his home and lives off past rent money while focusing on women who attract him and the way the world seems not to have actually changed as he looks out his window with a small telescope. "All of a sudden," he claims,"it looks like a set, a city of card board." The movie is interesting and telling of this world and one man's desire to avoid it. Sergio visits the home of Hemmingway in Cuba and comments on his reasons for living there. The movie ends with an outside view of Cuba by President Kennedy's warnings to the new communist state.

The movie is quick-paced and packed with information, as well as interesting and enjoyable.

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