Alsino and the Condor

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Alsino and the Condor

Release Date: May 01, 1983

Year	:	1983
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.