Alsino and the Condor
- IMDb link: 0083543
- IMDb rating: 6.2 (407 votes) Search
- Genres: Drama, War
- Director: Dean Stockwell, Miguel Littin
- Cast: Alan Esquivel, Carmen Bunster, Alejandro Parodi and others
- Release year: 1982
- Runtime: 89 minutes
- Country: Nicaragua, Cuba, Mexico, Costa Rica
- Keywords: human flight, american, soldier, year 1979, bare chested man, secret, brutality, guerilla war, enchantment, drunkenness
Plot:
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.
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