¡Viva Cuba! – Cuban Cultural Day

On the last Sunday of August, the last day of summer, the House of Music and the Embassy of Cuba will hold a Cuban Cultural Day, to celebrate the 65th anniversary of Hungarian-Cuban diplomatic relations. The free event will start with a screening of a cult Cuban film, Memorias del subdesarrollo (1968).

The film will be screened in Spanish with English subtitles, followed by a concert by Bakary, featuring a cross between Cuban music and Latin jazz.

The summer will end with a free Cuba Day on the Open Air Stage, starting with a screening of one of the most acclaimed Cuban films, Memorias del subdesarrollo. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's 1968 film (Memories of Underdevelopment) is the personal memoir of a young artist-writer who remains in Cuba after his wife and friends emigrate to America. It is a major work of fragmented structure and cinematic language renewal, and was named one of the ten best films of 1968 by the New York Times.

The lifelong artist son of a bourgeois family stays in Cuba in 1962 while his family emigrates to the United States. His ideological contradictions leave him a simple bystander to a changed society. Having lost his old world, he is unable to find his place in the revolutionary process.

The film will be shown in Spanish with English subtitles.
A joint event of the Embassy of Cuba and the House of Music.