Alsino and the Condor
Alsino and the Condor

Alsino and the Condor

Alsino y el cóndor

Release date : 1982-12-01

Production country :

Costa Rica,

Cuba,

Mexico,

Nicaragua

Production company :

ICAIC,

CRFC,

Instituto Nicaraguense de Cine (INCINE),

Productora Cinematográfica Latinoamericana de México,

NFI,

Cooperativa Cinematográfica Costarricense,

Latin-American Film Releasing Corp.

Status : Released

Durasi : 89 Min.

Popularity : 2.051

5.2

Total Vote : 18

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.