Alsino and the Condor (1982) [N/A]
Release Date:
December 1, 1982
Original Title:
Alsino y el cóndor
Alternate Titles:
Alsino og condoren
Genres:
Drama | War
Production Companies:
CRFC
Cooperativa Cinematográfica Costarricense
ICAIC
Instituto Nicaraguense de Cine (INCINE)
Latin-American Film Releasing Corp.
NFI
Productora Cinematográfica Latinoamericana de México
Production Countries:
Costa Rica | Cuba | Mexico | Nicaragua
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 89
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.