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Memories of Underdevelopment

Memorias del subdesarrollo

1968

After his wife and family flee to Miami in the wake of the Bay of Pigs, a bourgeois intellectual chooses to remain in revolutionary Havana, drifting through a transformed city and his own alienation as the missile crisis looms. A landmark of Cuban and world cinema.

Part of 9 Essential Films from Cuba

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