Society of the Snow

2023

2h 24m

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8.0/10

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On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, chartered to take a rugby team to Chile, crashes into a glacier in the heart of the Andes.

Directors

J.A. Bayona

Writers

Pablo Vierci(book by)

Jaime Marques(screenplay by)

Bernat Vilaplana(screenplay by)

Stars

Enzo Vogrincic

Agustín Pardella

Matías Recalt

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Top cast

Enzo Vogrincic

Numa Turcatti

Agustín Pardella

Fernando "Nando" Parrado

Matías Recalt

Roberto Canessa

Esteban Bigliardi

Javier Methol

Diego Vegezzi

Marcelo Pérez del Castillo

Fernando Contigiani García

Arturo Nogueira

Esteban Kukuriczka

Adolfo "Fito" Strauch

Francisco Romero

Daniel Fernández Strauch

Rafael Federman

Eduardo Strauch

Valentino Alonso

Alfredo "Pancho" Delgado

Tomás Wolf

Gustavo Zerbino

Agustín Della Corte

Antonio "Tintin" Vizintín

Felipe Otaño

Carlitos Páez

Andy Pruss

Roy Harley

Blas Polidori

Gustavo "Coco" Nicolich

Felipe Ramusio

Diego Storm

Simón Hempe

José Luis "Coche" Inciarte

Luciano Chattón

Pedro Algorta

Directors

J.A. Bayona

Writers

Pablo Vierci(book by)

Jaime Marques(screenplay by)

Bernat Vilaplana(screenplay by)

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Pretty realistic movie of the events of the tragedy of the uruguayan flight with the that crashed in the Andes in 72, showing the strive for survival and realistic events that occurred (including the cannibalism as last resort for survival when the searches were stopped). The film closed the 80th Venice International Film Festival, and was selected as the Spanish entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards. The flight was carrying 45 passengers and crew, including 19 members of the Old Christians Club rugby union team, along with their families, supporters and friends. Out of the initial crash, 33 people survived but with natural exposure, starvation, infection and other causes the final number was 16. This because, two survivors, Nando Parrado and Roberto Canessa, climbed the 4,650-metre (15,260 ft) mountain peak on the western rim of the glacier cirque without any mountaineering gear whatsoever and hiked for 10 days into Chile to seek help, traveling 61 km (38 miles) to find a rescue team by helicopters. On 23 December 1972, two months after the crash, all 16 remaining survivors were rescued. The news of their miraculous survival drew worldwide headlines and evolved into a media circus about the fact of cannibalism. The director J. A. Bayona (The Orphanage, The Impossible, A Monster Calls, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom), discovered the book of one of the survivors while researching material for the Impossible and bought the rights for the book when he finished filming that movie, while taking more than 100h of interviews with the survivors, and was shoot in location around the crash site and into the actual crash site coasting mor than 60 million Euros. The cinematography by Pedro Luque (Antbellum, Don't Breathe , Blue Beetle, The Girl into the Spider Web) is pretty gritty and realistic, and prosthetics by David Martí and Montse Ribé, Academy Award–winning special effects makeup artists of Pan's Labyrinth were used. In general the best of the movie depicting the events, in a more than realistic way than Alive. Score: 8.1 out of 10.0 / A-

BornKnight08 Jan, 2024