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Alsino and the Condor: Directed by Miguel Littin. With Dean Stockwell, Alan Esquivel, Carmen Bunster, Alejandro Parodi. 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.
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- Drama, War
- Miguel Littin
- 1982
Alsino and the Condor (Spanish: Alsino y el cóndor) is a 1982 Nicaraguan film directed by Chilean filmmaker Miguel Littín. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It won the Golden Prize at the 13th Moscow International Film Festival. The film was a co-production between Nicaragua, Mexico and Cuba.
Helicopters, troop carriers and tanks come and go across the lush landscape where the peasants plow their fields in the rain, and the little boy, Alsino, becomes enraptured by the sight of the airborne soldiers. A US adviser ( Dean Stockwell) takes the kid up in a helicopter.
Alsino and the Condor. Hunchbacked from trying to fly like a bird, a peasant boy (Alan Esquivel) joins guerrillas in Latin America.
- Miguel Littin
- R
- Dean Stockwell, Alan Esquivel, Carmen Bunster
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Brief Synopsis. A young boy, who longs to fly like a bird, discovers that freedom of flight is found in action.
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While his country and its rotting buildings crumble all around him, the idealistic Alsino imagines himself to be a condor, flying far above his deprivations. It is during one of his hallucinations that Alsino jumps from a tree; the fall cripples him, turning him into a hunchback.
