Ballad of the Little Soldier (Ballade vom kleinen Soldaten) (1984)

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"Yet again Herzogs gigantous balls fill the entire screen when he travels to the jungle of Nicaragua in the middle of a conflict between Miskito people and Sandinistas. He examines the ways how Miskitos train their children soldiers, some of them as young as nine years old. As one of the childrens trainers puts it: "Their minds are pure and not yet corrupted." as in they don't have free will. Only thing you can see in their eyes is confusion. Little children whose parents and siblings have been "