Ballad Of The Little Soldier (1984, Werner Herzog & Denis Reichle)

"Ballad Of The Little Soldier is a 1984 documentary film directed by Werner Herzog about children soldiers in Nicaragua. The film focuses on a group of Miskito Indians who used children soldiers in their resistance against the Sandinistas.

Herzog made and co-directed the film at the request of his friend Denis Reichle, who himself served as a child-soldier in the Volkssturm at age fourteen in the aftermath of World War II. The film is often cited as Herzog's most explicitly political, though Herzog denies that he had any specific statement on the politics of the Sandinistas. Herzog has said that the film is about child soldiers, and could have been made in any of several countries where child soldiers exist."

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[RebelliousYouth]

@rodeohead Thank you!

[rodeohead]

@RebelliousYouth La de la mochila azul is the name of the song.

[RebelliousYouth]

What song does the boy sing in the beginning? Anyone know? Thanks! Great film

[TomTakitani]

Thanks for this..

[MerveYoungki]

Thanks for the upload!

[BuridansEsel1]

many thanks! I also saw wounded children and adult by the Contras in a hospital in Managua. Maybe 3 or 4 later than this film the fight was already abit changed. Anyway - this is children abuse!

[albivinehart]

thank you