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Madagascar

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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.

Cast & crew

Yolanda Ruiz · Laura de la Uz · Manuel Rodríguez · Carmen Rivera · Zaida Castellanos · Jorge Molina · Isabel Santos · Nancy Rodriguez · Ramón Brito · Susana Alonso · Roberto Delgado · Fernando Pérez · Mirta Yáñez

Studios & networks

ICAIC