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.

Cast

Dean Stockwell Frank

Alan Esquivel Alsino

Carmen Bunster Alsino's Grandmother

Alejandro Parodi The Major

Marta Lorena Pérez Lucia

Reynaldo Miravalles Don Nazario, the Birdman Marcelo Gaete Lucia's Grandfather

Jan Kees De Roy Dutch Adviser

Delia Casanova Rosaria

Luz Amparo Gutiérrez

Jan Kees de Rooy Dutch Adviser

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