Summary 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. View more details
Directed : Miguel Littin
Written : Miguel Littin Isidora Aguirre Pedro Prado
Stars : Dean Stockwell Alejandro Parodi Alan Esquivel Carmen Bunster
Genres : Drama War
Release date : Jan 2, 1982
Countries of origin : Mexico Cuba Costa Rica Nicaragua
Language : English Spanish
Filming locations : Nicaragua
Production companies : Instituto Nicaraguense de Cine (INCINE) Productora Cinematográfica Latinoamericana de México Cooperativa Cinematográfica Costarricense
Summary 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. View more details
Genres : Drama War
Release date : Jan 2, 1982
Countries of origin : Mexico Cuba Costa Rica Nicaragua
Language : English Spanish
Filming locations : Nicaragua
Production companies : Instituto Nicaraguense de Cine (INCINE) Productora Cinematográfica Latinoamericana de México Cooperativa Cinematográfica Costarricense
