Alsino and the Condor (1983)

  • NR
  • 05/01/1983 (US)
  • Drama, War
  • 1h 29m

Overview

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.

Isidora Aguirre

Writer

Miguel Littín

Writer, Director

Tomás Pérez Turrent

Writer

Cast

Dean Stockwell's headshot

Dean Stockwell

Frank
Alan Esquivel's headshot

Alan Esquivel

Alsino
Carmen Bunster's headshot

Carmen Bunster

Alsino's Grandmother
Alejandro Parodi's headshot

Alejandro Parodi

The Major
Marta Lorena Pérez's headshot

Marta Lorena Pérez

Lucia
Reynaldo Miravalles's headshot

Reynaldo Miravalles

Don Nazario, the Birdman
Marcelo Gaete's headshot

Marcelo Gaete

Lucia's Grandfather
Jan Kees De Roy's headshot

Jan Kees De Roy

Dutch Adviser

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