Alsino and the Condor
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.
Directed by Miguel Littín · Written by Isidora Aguirre
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Cast
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Dean Stockwell Frank - Alan Esquivel Alsino
- Carmen Bunster Alsino's Grandmother
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Alejandro Parodi The Major - Marta Lorena Pérez Lucia
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Reynaldo Miravalles Don Nazario, the Birdman - Marcelo Gaete Lucia's Grandfather
- Jan Kees De Roy Dutch Adviser
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Delia Casanova Rosaria - Luz Amparo Gutiérrez
- Jan Kees de Rooy Dutch Adviser
