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.
Fernando Pérez
Director, Writer
Mirta Yáñez
Writer
Manuel Rodríguez
Writer
Zaida Castellanos
Laura
Laura de la Uz
Laurita
Isabel Santos
Abuela
Jorge Molina
Molina
Ramón Brito
Alberto
Susana Alonso
Mercedes
Yolanda Ruiz
Profesora I
Carmen Rivera
Profesora II
Nancy Rodriguez
Profesora III
Ixcanul67%
El Rey de La Habana69%
Noche de fuego76%
La fortaleza73%
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds73%
Lorelei59%
Un traductor68%
ma ma62%
Infancia clandestina68%
El estudiante77%
Los colores de la montaña76%
Sin Señas Particulares70%
Nadie te oye: perfume de violetas78%
Mindwalk69%
Los dos hemisferios de Lucca73%
Un mundo para Julius73%
Barrio67%
Las elegidas63%
Martín (Hache)74%
Los domingos70%
