Alsino y el cóndor
(Alcino and the Condor)

Nicaragua-Cuba-Mexico-Costa Rica (1982): Drama

This picture is a multinational production, utilizing financing from Nicaragua, Mexico, Cuba and Costa Rica. The film is related from the point of view of Alsino (Alan Esquivel), 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. It is during one of his hallucinations that Alsino jumps from a tree; the fall cripples him, turning him into a hunchback. He will only straighten out to his full proud height upon joining a guerilla band, fighting the corrupt government armies. Significantly, Alsino & the Condor was the first post-Sandinista production to be filmed in Nicaragua. Miguel Littin directs. (US distributor: Libra Cinema 5, 1983) (Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide)

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