Alsino and the Condor (1982)
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.
Director: Miguel Littín
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Dean Stockwell as Frank |
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Alan Esquivel as Alsino |
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Carmen Bunster as Alsino's Grandmother |
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Alejandro Parodi as The Major |
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Marta Lorena Pérez as Lucia |
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Reynaldo Miravalles as Don Nazario, the Birdman |
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Marcelo Gaete as Lucia's Grandfather |
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Jan Kees De Roy as Dutch Adviser |
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Delia Casanova as Rosaria |
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Luz Amparo Gutiérrez as |
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Jan Kees de Rooy as Dutch Adviser |
| Writing | Isidora Aguirre | Writer |
| Writing | Miguel Littín | Writer |
| Writing | Tomás Pérez Turrent | Writer |
| Production | Hernán Littin | Producer |
| Directing | Miguel Littín | Director |
| Sound | Leo Brouwer | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Pablo Martínez | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Jorge Herrera | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Germinal Hernández | Sound Designer |
| Art | Ely Menz | Art Direction |
