Genres
Production Companies
CRFC
Instituto Nicaraguense de Cine (INCINE)
Productora Cinematográfica Latinoamericana de México
NFI
Cooperativa Cinematográfica Costarricense
Latin-American Film Releasing Corp.
Alsino and the Condor (Alsino y el cóndor)
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.
Key Crew
Writer: Isidora Aguirre, Miguel Littín, Tomás Pérez Turrent
Producer: Hernán Littin
Director: Miguel Littín
Director of Photography: Pablo Martínez, Jorge Herrera
