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.
Stars: Dean Stockwell, Alan Esquivel, Carmen Bunster, Alejandro Parodi, Marta Lorena Pérez, Reynaldo Miravalles
Crew: Isidora Aguirre (Writer), Miguel Littín (Writer), Tomás Pérez Turrent (Writer), Hernán Littin (Producer), Miguel Littín (Director), Leo Brouwer (Original Music Composer)
Country: Costa Rica, Cuba, Mexico, Nicaragua
Language: English, Español
Studio: ICAIC, CRFC, Instituto Nicaraguense de Cine (INCINE), Productora Cinematográfica Latinoamericana de México, NFI, Cooperativa Cinematográfica Costarricense, Latin-American Film Releasing Corp.
Runtime: 89 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Dec 01, 1982
IMDb: 5.8
