Alsino and the Condor
5.2
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1982-12-01
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Drama
War
Alsino, a boy of 10 or 12, lives with his grandmother in a remote area of Nicaragua. He's engulfed in the war between rebels and government troops when a US advisor orders the army to open a staging area by the boy's hamlet. Alsino tries to be a child, climbing trees with a girl, looking through his grandfather's trunk of mementos and trying to fly; he goes to town to sell a saddle, has his first drink and is taken to a brothel. But the war surrounds him. The US advisor takes Alsino on a chopper flight, but he's unimpressed. The soldiers' cruelties awake rebel sympathies in Alsino, and after an army assault backfires, the lad is fully baptized into the conflict.
Featured Crew
| Hernán Littin | Producer |
| Miguel Littín | Writer |
| Miguel Littín | Director |
| Isidora Aguirre | Writer |
| Tomás Pérez Turrent | Writer |
| Leo Brouwer | Original Music Composer |
| Jorge Herrera | Director of Photography |
| Pablo Martínez | Director of Photography |
| Germinal Hernández | Sound Designer |
| Ely Menz | Art Direction |
