Madagascar (1995)
54m
Running Time
March 1, 1995Release Date
Madagascar (1995)
54m
Running Time
March 1, 1995Release Date
Plot.
The 50-minute "Madagascar" has the resonance and eloquence of the best poetry, as it deftly turns an adolescent's search for identity into a metaphor for socialist Cuba. Laura is a professor at a shabby, stultifying college. Her daughter, Laurita, stops going to school, wishes to move to Madagascar and quickly races through several phases. One day, she looks like a heavy-metal fan, another like a bohemian who weeps at poetry and art. Slowly, she crosses the line from ordinary adolescent confusion to intense neurosis and beyond, finally becoming so obsessed with religion and good works that she brings 10 homeless children into the cramped house she shares with her mother and grandmother.
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Cast & Crew.
Elena Bolaños
Actress
Zaida Castellanos
Actress
Laura de la Uz
Actress
Ramón Brito
Alberto
Jorge Molina
Actor
Susana Alonso
Mercedes
Fernando Pérez
Director
Yolanda Ruiz
Profesora I
Manuel Rodríguez
Writer
Mirta Yáñez
Writer
Carmen Rivera
Profesora II
Santiago Llapur
Producer
Nancy Rodriguez
Profesora III
Roberto Delgado
Catedrático
Edesio Alejandro
Composer
Jose Ramon Vigo
Inspector
Raúl Pérez Ureta
Cinematographer
Basilio Garcia
Basilio
Laura Baluja
Comecol I
Armando Zambrano
Comecol II
Reynaldo Rojas
Comecol III
Jose A. Rojas
Comecol IV
Details.
Wiki.
Madagascar (1994) is a Cuban film that marked Fernando Pérez's change of direction into a more lyrical approach to filmmaking, somehow stripped from the realistic documentary feel of his early work. The film chronicles the relationship and lack of communication between a mother and daughter during the Cuban economic crisis known as the Special Period.