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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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- verified Status: Released
- calendar_month Release Date: 1982-12-01
- video_camera_front Companies ICAIC, CRFC, Instituto Nicaraguense de Cine (INCINE), Productora Cinematográfica Latinoamericana de México, NFI, Cooperativa Cinematográfica Costarricense, Latin-American Film Releasing Corp.
- timer Runtime: 89 Mins
- star Rating: 5.2 / 10
- favorite Likes: 18 Likes
- info IMDB ID tt0083543
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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
groups Crew
Isidora Aguirre
Writer
Miguel Littín
Writer
Tomás Pérez Turrent
Writer
Hernán Littin
Producer
Miguel Littín
Director
Leo Brouwer
Original Music Composer
Pablo Martínez
Director of Photography
Jorge Herrera
Director of Photography
Germinal Hernández
Sound Designer
Ely Menz
Art Direction
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