Cuban Film Memories of Underdevelopment Screened after Restoration

Cuban film ''Memories of Underdevelopment, directed by Tomas Gutierrez Alea ''Titon'' returned to the big screen on Sunday 50 years after its premiere.

Considered by many the best Latin American film of the 20th century, the movie returns to theaters after the US company The Criterion Collection restored it.

The screening of the film is part of the options at the 40th International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, which is being dedicated Gutierrez Alea.

Starring in Sergio Corrieri, Daisy Granados and Eslinda Nuñez, Memories of Underdevelopment is an introspective and ironic story that shows a frustrated Cuban bourgeois intellectual amid a vertiginous and changing Revolution.

The motion picture has been described by specialized critics as ahead of its time, because the director was not afraid of raising controversy and he reiterated his desire to disturb audiences and push them to seek answers to their problems.

According to the researcher Ana Maria Lopez (United States-Cuba) with this film, the moviemaker 'showed his global projection without losing the essence of his closest environment, he reaffirmed himself as a critical intellectual and showed the subjective interrelation of a citizen within the framework of changes in Cuba.'

The film, released in Havana on August 19, 1968, is based on the homonymous novel by Edmundo Desnoes, one of its screenwriters along with Titon, and in 2009, it was recognized as 'the best Ibero-American film of the 20th century'.