Alsino and the Condor

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.

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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