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nicaragua rebellion
Alsino and the Condor
Release Date: December 01, 1982
Year | : | 1982 |
Slogan | : | «» |
Genres | : | Drama, War |
Production Companies | : | ICAIC, CRFC, Instituto Nicaraguense de Cine (INCINE), Productora Cinematográfica Latinoamericana de México, NFI, Cooperativa Cinematográfica Costarricense, Latin-American Film Releasing Corp. |
Director | : | Miguel Littín |
Producers | : | Hernán Littin |
Writers | : | Miguel Littín, Tomás Pérez Turrent, Isidora Aguirre |
RunTime | : | 89 mins. |
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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