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¡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.
The concert is organized with the collaboration of the Embassy of the Republic of Cuba in Hungary.
Partners
Rock Troubadours (US, 70s): CSNY, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Van Morrison, Roy Harper
