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Alsino and the Condor

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Original title

Alsino y el cóndor (Alsino and the Condor)

Year

1982

Running time

89 min.

Country

Nicaragua

Director

Miguel Littin

Screenwriter

Isidora Aguirre, Miguel Littin, Tomás Pérez Turrent

Cast

Music

Leo Brouwer

Cinematography

Jorge Herrera, Pablo Martínez

Producer

Co-production Nicaragua-Cuba-Mexico-Costa Rica;

CRFC, ICAIC, NFI, Latin-American Film Releasing

Genre

Drama. War | Nicaraguan Revolution

Synopsis

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.

Awards: 1982: Nominated for Oscar: Best Foreign Language Picture

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Alsino and the Condor

1982

Miguel Littin

6.1

(182)