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  1. 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
  2. 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.

  3. "Alsino and the Condor" is the first fiction feature ever made in Nicaragua, but its poetic intensity will make it familiar to readers of Latin American literature. It makes a fascinating counterpoint to " Under Fire ," the excellent thriller starring Nick Nolte and Gene Hackman as American reporters covering the fall of the Somosa regime.

  4. Alsino, a young Nicaraguan boy, lives in a war-torn area. Amidst conflict, he tries to embrace childhood but is drawn into the war’s reality. A chopper flight with a US advisor leaves him unimpressed. Witnessing soldiers’ cruelties he becomes sympathetic to rebels and fully immersed in the conflict.

  5. Apr 8, 2019 · 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.

  6. Honored with an Oscar nomination this year, Alsino and the Condor takes that universal of dreams, a child’s wish to fly, and uses it to portray the dreams and awakening of a Latin American child growing up amidst war. It is Nicaragua, 1979, the hated Somoza dictatorship crumbles as the popular forces advance, and the child, Alsino, literally ...

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  8. Alsino and the Condor 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.