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Memorias del subdesarrollo (1968) More at IMDbPro »

• Director Cameo: [Tomás Gutiérrez Alea] the director that Sergio is talking to at the ICIAC about the college film
  
  
• The first film to be made in post-revolutionary Cuba to be released in the United States.
  
  
• In a cheeky nod to the rigid Catholic censors of the Batista regime, Alea includes a reel of titillating footage that they had excised from Western films.
  
  
• Selected by the New York Times in 1974 as one of the ten best films of the year.
  
  
• Alea was heavily influenced in his style by Alain Resnais' _Hiroshima Mon Amour_.
  
  
• When the US National Society of Film Critics awarded the film a special prize in 1973, Alea was denied a visa to attend the ceremony.
  
  

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