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- (R) An acclaimed Nicaraguan drama about a young boy, caught in war-torn Nicaragua between the Somoza government and the Sandinista rebels, who dreams of flying above the human strife.
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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.
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.
- (361)
- Drama, War
- Miguel Littin
- 1982
Apr 8, 2019 · Alsino y el cóndor (1982) The film is related from the point of view of Alsino, an impoverished Nicaraguan lad. 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.
American advisers work with the government in the war against the guerrillas. 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.
Alsino and the Condor (Spanish: Alsino y el cóndor) is 1982 Nicaraguan Cuban Mexican Costa Rican drama movie directed by Miguel Littín and starring Dean Stockwell, Alan Esquivel, Carmen Bunster, Alejandro Parodi, Reynaldo Miravalles.
Jun 30, 2011 · A co-production between Nicaragua, Mexico, Costa Rica and Cuba, the 1982 film Alsino y el Cóndor was directed by Chilean Miguel Littín, who was at the time exiled in Mexico after Pinochet's takeover in Chile. Shot in Nicaragua, the film is a political allegory about a child's dreams of freedom during the Contras vs Sandinista…
This chapter discusses the film, Alsino y el condor (1982), by Miguel Littín, within the context of an encroaching US hegemony and the struggles of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in Nicaragua. Littín had to confront two very different kinds of audiences: a public engaged with the Nicaraguan struggle, and a larger and less ...
