Fifty years ago, we spent 73 days on a majestic mountain, miles away from the warmth and stability of society as we know it, alone but for the presence of God and each other. But it would be those two elements that would keep us and the other 14 survivors of a horrific plane crash and subsequent avalanche alive as we prayed for the strength to survive just one more minute. Those minutes became hours, those hours became days, and those days became weeks as we held onto the flickering hope within our own society that salvation lay on the horizon.
We and others have been telling our story for half a century, but the filmmaker J.A. Bayona has captured it in ways that we find inspiring and fresh all over again. In many respects, “Society of the Snow” violates a well-worn tenet of all drama: it is a film free of an antagonist.
We and others have been telling our story for half a century, but the filmmaker J.A. Bayona has captured it in ways that we find inspiring and fresh all over again. In many respects, “Society of the Snow” violates a well-worn tenet of all drama: it is a film free of an antagonist.
- 2/20/2024
- by Roberto Canessa and Gustavo Zerbino
- Indiewire
The doomed flight of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 remains one of the most astonishing stories of real life survival horror the world has ever known. Often called “the Miracle in the Andes,” this harrowing tale begins with a plane crash that left 12 dead and 33 stranded among the snowy mountain peaks of Argentina. With only a week’s worth of food, those left alive after the first few days were forced to eat the bodies of their fallen companions to survive the brutal cold and inhospitable environment. With the world assuming them dead, Fernando ‘Nando’ Parrado, and Roberto Canessa eventually made a desperate trek through the treacherous mountain range with little more than clothing assembled from the wreckage and a homemade sleeping bag. 72 days after the initial disaster, sixteen survivors emerged from the mountains, dirty, starving, but determined to live.
This incredible story has been told many times in memoirs, documentaries...
This incredible story has been told many times in memoirs, documentaries...
- 1/12/2024
- by Jenn Adams
- bloody-disgusting.com
This article contains major Society of the Snow spoilers.
It’s the twist that makes or breaks Society of the Snow for viewers. Like the famous Hollywood version of this true story of survival in the face of unimaginable catastrophe, Society of the Snow is narrated by a fictionalized version of one of the young men who endured it. The real-life Numa Turcatti boarded Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 on Oct. 13, 1972; he would survive a nightmarish plane crash that left him and members of the Old Christians Rugby Club stranded at the top of the world; and he would face the unimaginable choice of eating from the human dead.
Yet as J.A. Bayona’s Society of the Snow goes along, a slowly spiritual bent unfurls. We are first clued into this by Numa (who is played by Enzo Vogrincic in the film) musing over the existential and philosophical implications of their plight.
It’s the twist that makes or breaks Society of the Snow for viewers. Like the famous Hollywood version of this true story of survival in the face of unimaginable catastrophe, Society of the Snow is narrated by a fictionalized version of one of the young men who endured it. The real-life Numa Turcatti boarded Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 on Oct. 13, 1972; he would survive a nightmarish plane crash that left him and members of the Old Christians Rugby Club stranded at the top of the world; and he would face the unimaginable choice of eating from the human dead.
Yet as J.A. Bayona’s Society of the Snow goes along, a slowly spiritual bent unfurls. We are first clued into this by Numa (who is played by Enzo Vogrincic in the film) musing over the existential and philosophical implications of their plight.
- 1/10/2024
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
iHeartPodcasts, the No. 1 podcast publisher globally according to Podtrac, together with actors Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson, announce the return of their podcast, Sibling Revelry for season four. The hilarious duo of sibling hosts is ready to take listeners on an even more amusing and engaging journey through the joys and challenges of family ties.
Over their first three seasons, Kate and Oliver have captivated listeners with a collection of entertaining and inspirational stories, featuring a diverse group of guests, ranging from the Kardashian-Jenners, the Hiltons, Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Bush, Stella and Mary McCartney and the Haim sisters to brothers Chad and Rob Lowe, Ron and Clint Howard and Matthew and Mike “Rooster” McConaughey, and other cultural icons including Tony Hawk, Jimmy Kimmel, Amy Schumer, Rob Gronkowski and many others, along with their siblings.
In the new season of “Sibling Revelry”, Kate and Oliver – who also produce the...
Over their first three seasons, Kate and Oliver have captivated listeners with a collection of entertaining and inspirational stories, featuring a diverse group of guests, ranging from the Kardashian-Jenners, the Hiltons, Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Bush, Stella and Mary McCartney and the Haim sisters to brothers Chad and Rob Lowe, Ron and Clint Howard and Matthew and Mike “Rooster” McConaughey, and other cultural icons including Tony Hawk, Jimmy Kimmel, Amy Schumer, Rob Gronkowski and many others, along with their siblings.
In the new season of “Sibling Revelry”, Kate and Oliver – who also produce the...
- 1/8/2024
- Podnews.net
This article contains Society of the Snow spoilers.
Newly arrived on Netflix after a brief theatrical run, is director and co-writer J.A. Bayona’s Society of the Snow. The film recounts the tragic, but incredible, story of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which crashed on a remote mountain in the Andes during a routine flight between Uruguay and Chile. The flight was carrying a total of 45 passengers and crew, including the members of Uruguay’s Old Christians rugby club, plus assorted family and friends.
Some 16 people died either in the crash or its initial aftermath while 13 more perished during the more than two months in which the 29 initial survivors tried to stay alive in frigid temperatures with no food and a number of grave injuries. During that time—long after search-and-rescue missions were called off—the survivors resorted to eating the flesh of their dead companions to nourish themselves. Eventually, two...
Newly arrived on Netflix after a brief theatrical run, is director and co-writer J.A. Bayona’s Society of the Snow. The film recounts the tragic, but incredible, story of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which crashed on a remote mountain in the Andes during a routine flight between Uruguay and Chile. The flight was carrying a total of 45 passengers and crew, including the members of Uruguay’s Old Christians rugby club, plus assorted family and friends.
Some 16 people died either in the crash or its initial aftermath while 13 more perished during the more than two months in which the 29 initial survivors tried to stay alive in frigid temperatures with no food and a number of grave injuries. During that time—long after search-and-rescue missions were called off—the survivors resorted to eating the flesh of their dead companions to nourish themselves. Eventually, two...
- 1/6/2024
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
We’re happy to report that after five days, all of our New Years Resolutions are still intact. Except for the one about doing 20 minutes of yoga in the morning. Impossible. And the one about not eating the entire bag of potato chips in one sitting. Yeah, nah. Oh! We also didn’t stop doomscrolling, smoking or clipping our toenails at the gym. But other than that? Perfectly on track. And while there are still two long months of awards season left to endure enjoy, the New Year has brought a bountiful crop of Don’t-Miss Indies.
The Lady Bird Diaries
When You Can Watch: Now
Where You Can Watch: Hulu
Director: Dawn Porter
Why We’re Excited: Acclaimed documentarian Dawn Porter’s moving new documentary offers a singular vantage point on of the most important administrations in US history, based on 123 hours of former First Lady Claudia “Lady Bird” Johnson’s own audio diaries.
The Lady Bird Diaries
When You Can Watch: Now
Where You Can Watch: Hulu
Director: Dawn Porter
Why We’re Excited: Acclaimed documentarian Dawn Porter’s moving new documentary offers a singular vantage point on of the most important administrations in US history, based on 123 hours of former First Lady Claudia “Lady Bird” Johnson’s own audio diaries.
- 1/5/2024
- by Su Fang Tham
- Film Independent News & More
Plot: The true story of The Uruguayan 1972 Andes flight disaster, where a team of Rugby players crashed in the Andes, and the survivors had to endure the harsh elements, avalanches and starvation before finally being rescued thanks to their own heroic efforts.
Review: The Uruguayan Andes Crash is one of the most compelling survival stories ever told. There’s a reason it’s become a popular topic for documentarians and filmmakers, but with it dramatized so brilliantly in the film Alive, what’s the point of another version? I was wary of digging into Netflix’s lavish new movie, but the fact that it was directed by J. A. Bayona, whose film The Impossible (about the 2004 Tsunami) is pretty underrated, made me curious. I passed on seeing this at a local theatrical screening here in Montreal to watch the screener, but about 20 minutes in, I realized I had made a terrible mistake.
Review: The Uruguayan Andes Crash is one of the most compelling survival stories ever told. There’s a reason it’s become a popular topic for documentarians and filmmakers, but with it dramatized so brilliantly in the film Alive, what’s the point of another version? I was wary of digging into Netflix’s lavish new movie, but the fact that it was directed by J. A. Bayona, whose film The Impossible (about the 2004 Tsunami) is pretty underrated, made me curious. I passed on seeing this at a local theatrical screening here in Montreal to watch the screener, but about 20 minutes in, I realized I had made a terrible mistake.
- 1/2/2024
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
The lore of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which fell out of the sky and crashed into the South American Andes in 1972, typically summons grisly images of cannibalism and gangrene. The 72 days that a Uruguayan rugby team en route to Chile endured, snow-drifted and hungry, have been dramatized elsewhere, including the 1993 survival drama “Alive,” starring a mostly white and Anglicized cast. Now, after a moment under the tentpole sun with the ill-conceived “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,” Spanish filmmaker J.A. Bayona returns to the style of more personal and human disasters with “Society of the Snow.” Shot in Spanish with Uruguayan accents, this muscular and often brutal depiction is chiseled with authenticity, but it’s too psychologically schematic to make much in the way of an emotional impact.
That’s not to say Bayona and his team haven’t devised some seriously impressive filmmaking: “Society of the Snow” was filmed in Spain...
That’s not to say Bayona and his team haven’t devised some seriously impressive filmmaking: “Society of the Snow” was filmed in Spain...
- 12/21/2023
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Leave it to filmmaker Guillermo del Toro to instantly find the connection between supernatural horror film “The Orphanage,” the feature debut of J.A. Bayona that he produced, to the Spanish director’s latest film “Society of the Snow,” depicting the story of the survivors of the 1972 plane crash in the Andes.
Even though, on paper, both of Bayona’s films may seem like tough watches, in an exclusive video of the two directors’ chat about the Netflix release — chosen to be Spain’s submission for the Best International Feature Oscar — recent Academy Award winner del Toro expressed the deeper intertwined theme of the two films: “There’s a strange thing that I know intimately because we collaborated from your first movie on, we’ve been friends for longer, but one would argue that ‘The Orphanage’ is a survivor’s guilt tale because every other kid in that orphanage died except...
Even though, on paper, both of Bayona’s films may seem like tough watches, in an exclusive video of the two directors’ chat about the Netflix release — chosen to be Spain’s submission for the Best International Feature Oscar — recent Academy Award winner del Toro expressed the deeper intertwined theme of the two films: “There’s a strange thing that I know intimately because we collaborated from your first movie on, we’ve been friends for longer, but one would argue that ‘The Orphanage’ is a survivor’s guilt tale because every other kid in that orphanage died except...
- 12/14/2023
- by Marcus Jones
- Indiewire
Society of the Snow, directed by Spanish filmmaker J.A. Bayona and Spain’s submission into the 2024 Oscar race, is based on the true story of the 1972 Andes flight disaster in which a flight carrying Uruguay’s Old Christians Club rugby team for a match in Santiago, Chile, crashed on a glacier at the Valle de las Lágrimas (Valley of Tears).
Of the 45 people aboard Flight 571 only 16 survived, including Roberto Canessa, who joined producer Belén Atienza and Bayona to discuss the film for Deadline’s Contenders Film: International.
The Netflix movie is adapted from Pablo Vierci’s 2008 book La Sociedad de La Nieve [Society of the Snow: The Definitive Account of the World’s Greatest Survival Story], which gives it distance from previous books and films about the story.
“You can that tell in this new take you have the gravitas, the weight of the time that has passed,” said Bayona. “It’s a much more spiritual book which was a challenge; what made the...
Of the 45 people aboard Flight 571 only 16 survived, including Roberto Canessa, who joined producer Belén Atienza and Bayona to discuss the film for Deadline’s Contenders Film: International.
The Netflix movie is adapted from Pablo Vierci’s 2008 book La Sociedad de La Nieve [Society of the Snow: The Definitive Account of the World’s Greatest Survival Story], which gives it distance from previous books and films about the story.
“You can that tell in this new take you have the gravitas, the weight of the time that has passed,” said Bayona. “It’s a much more spiritual book which was a challenge; what made the...
- 12/9/2023
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
Deadline’s Contenders Film: International award-season event launches Saturday beginning at 9 a.m. Pt, the latest in our series of showcases that this time turns the focus toward global cinema via discussions with the casts and creatives of 12 movies submitted by their countries for the 2024 Academy Awards’ International Feature race.
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The 2023 Oscar ceremony was a triumph for international film. Going into the ceremony, Edward Berger’s All Quiet on the Western Front was a winner already, having earned a spectacular seven nominations. If that wasn’t enough, it came away with four statuettes: one for International Feature, and three for Cinematography, Music and Production Design. Clearly this can’t happen every year, but, like Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite before it, Berger’s World War I epic proved that boundaries are being broken down, and international film, once synonymous with arthouse,...
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The 2023 Oscar ceremony was a triumph for international film. Going into the ceremony, Edward Berger’s All Quiet on the Western Front was a winner already, having earned a spectacular seven nominations. If that wasn’t enough, it came away with four statuettes: one for International Feature, and three for Cinematography, Music and Production Design. Clearly this can’t happen every year, but, like Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite before it, Berger’s World War I epic proved that boundaries are being broken down, and international film, once synonymous with arthouse,...
- 12/9/2023
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
In 1972, a small passenger plane crashed into a mountain in the Andes, its tail and wings ripping off in the impact. When the fuselage came to rest on the snow, it contained 33 survivors, among them the young members of a Uruguayan rugby team. Over an unimaginable 72 days, they would contend with starvation, exposure, hypothermia and two avalanches, until only 16 remained alive. Ultimately, they were forced to make an agonizing choice: consume the bodies of the dead or die themselves. J.A. Bayona’s film Society of the Snow, based on Pablo Vierci’s book of the same name, takes a fresh look at the story, giving voice to both the dead and the living. Here, the Spanish filmmaker and the Uruguayan author discuss how they collaborated to tell a vital story of human will and sacrifice that would honor the real experience of the survivors and their dear departed friends.
Deadline: Pablo,...
Deadline: Pablo,...
- 12/8/2023
- by Antonia Blyth
- Deadline Film + TV
Here’s a look at this week’s biggest premieres, parties and openings in Los Angeles and New York, including events for Poor Things, The Color Purple and American Fiction.
Leave the World Behind premiere
Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, Myha’la, Kevin Bacon, Farrah Mackenzie, Charlie Evans and writer-director Sam Esmail walked the carpet at the NYC premiere of their Netflix thriller on Monday.
Ethan Hawke and Julia Roberts Kevin Bacon, Sam Esmail, Ethan Hawke, Julia Roberts, Farrah Mackenzie, Charlie Evans, Mahershala Ali and Myha’la Herrold
American Fiction premiere
Writer-director Cord Jefferson joined stars Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross and Sterling K. Brown at their film’s Los Angeles premiere on Tuesday.
Cord Jefferson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Jeffrey Wright, Sterling K. Brown, Erika Alexander and Adam Brody
Wish music celebration
The team behind the music of Wish, including star Ariana DeBose, celebrated with an event in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
Leave the World Behind premiere
Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, Myha’la, Kevin Bacon, Farrah Mackenzie, Charlie Evans and writer-director Sam Esmail walked the carpet at the NYC premiere of their Netflix thriller on Monday.
Ethan Hawke and Julia Roberts Kevin Bacon, Sam Esmail, Ethan Hawke, Julia Roberts, Farrah Mackenzie, Charlie Evans, Mahershala Ali and Myha’la Herrold
American Fiction premiere
Writer-director Cord Jefferson joined stars Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross and Sterling K. Brown at their film’s Los Angeles premiere on Tuesday.
Cord Jefferson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Jeffrey Wright, Sterling K. Brown, Erika Alexander and Adam Brody
Wish music celebration
The team behind the music of Wish, including star Ariana DeBose, celebrated with an event in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
- 12/8/2023
- by Kirsten Chuba
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Netflix has launched a new trailer for J.A. Bayona’s based on a true story, ‘Society of the Snow.’
In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which had been chartered to fly a rugby team to Chile, crashed in the heart of the Andes. Only 29 of its 45 passengers survived the accident. Trapped in one of the most hostile and inaccessible environments on the planet, they have to resort to extreme measures to stay alive.
The movie stars Enzo Vogrincic (Numa Turcatti), Agustín Pardella (Nando Parrado), Matías Recalt (Roberto Canessa), Esteban Bigliardi (Javier Methol), Diego Vegezzi (Marcelo Perez), Fernando Contigiani García (Arturo Nogueira), Esteban Kukuriczka (Fito Strauch), Rafael Federman (Eduardo Strauss), Francisco Romero (Daniel Fernandez Strauch), Valentino Alonso (Pancho Delgado), Tomás Wolf (Gustavo Zerbino), Agustín Della Corte (Tintín Vizintín), Felipe Otaño (Carlitos Páez), Andy Pruss (Roy Harley), Blas Polidori (Coco), Felipe Ramusio (Diego Storm), Simón Hempe (Coche Inciarte).
Also in trailers – Trailer drops...
In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which had been chartered to fly a rugby team to Chile, crashed in the heart of the Andes. Only 29 of its 45 passengers survived the accident. Trapped in one of the most hostile and inaccessible environments on the planet, they have to resort to extreme measures to stay alive.
The movie stars Enzo Vogrincic (Numa Turcatti), Agustín Pardella (Nando Parrado), Matías Recalt (Roberto Canessa), Esteban Bigliardi (Javier Methol), Diego Vegezzi (Marcelo Perez), Fernando Contigiani García (Arturo Nogueira), Esteban Kukuriczka (Fito Strauch), Rafael Federman (Eduardo Strauss), Francisco Romero (Daniel Fernandez Strauch), Valentino Alonso (Pancho Delgado), Tomás Wolf (Gustavo Zerbino), Agustín Della Corte (Tintín Vizintín), Felipe Otaño (Carlitos Páez), Andy Pruss (Roy Harley), Blas Polidori (Coco), Felipe Ramusio (Diego Storm), Simón Hempe (Coche Inciarte).
Also in trailers – Trailer drops...
- 11/27/2023
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Netflix’s Society of the Snow recounts the harrowing true story of the 1972 plane crash in the Andes that killed 16 people on impact and left 29 passengers struggling to survive in an inhospitable environment. The second one-minute teaser shows the moments before the plane carrying Uruguay’s Old Christians Club rugby team crashed into the mountains.
Director J.A. Bayona co-wrote the screenplay with Bernat Vilaplana, Jaime Marques, and Nicolás Casariego, based on the book by Pablo Vierci. Speaking with Netflix, Bayona described his path to making the film.
“I discovered the book while we were preparing The Impossible, and I immediately thought that I wanted to make it into a film,” said Bayona. “We put the project together over a period of more than 10 years, developing an approach to the story while working closely with Pablo Vierci.”
Society of the Snow is Spain’s Best International Film entry for the 2024 Academy...
Director J.A. Bayona co-wrote the screenplay with Bernat Vilaplana, Jaime Marques, and Nicolás Casariego, based on the book by Pablo Vierci. Speaking with Netflix, Bayona described his path to making the film.
“I discovered the book while we were preparing The Impossible, and I immediately thought that I wanted to make it into a film,” said Bayona. “We put the project together over a period of more than 10 years, developing an approach to the story while working closely with Pablo Vierci.”
Society of the Snow is Spain’s Best International Film entry for the 2024 Academy...
- 10/20/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
The 1972 disaster in which Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 went down in a remote part of the Andes while carrying a rugby team, their friends and family members to a match in Chile has been the subject of numerous books, documentaries and two dramatic features — the 1976 Mexploitation quickie, Survive!, which fell short of its exclamation point; and Frank Marshall’s 1993 Hollywood version, Alive, a middling entry in Ethan Hawke’s early screen career.
While it’s a fictionalized, gender-switched reinvention only loosely inspired by Flight 571, Showtime’s Yellowjackets has paradoxically made a bigger cultural splash than either of those films, with its genre mashup of horror, mystery and mordant humor.
Spanish director J.A. Bayona, who established his disaster/survival movie bona fides with the tsunami thriller The Impossible, now weighs in with the Netflix feature, Society of the Snow (La Sociedad de la Nieve), reclaiming the real-life tragedy and story of human resilience — and,...
While it’s a fictionalized, gender-switched reinvention only loosely inspired by Flight 571, Showtime’s Yellowjackets has paradoxically made a bigger cultural splash than either of those films, with its genre mashup of horror, mystery and mordant humor.
Spanish director J.A. Bayona, who established his disaster/survival movie bona fides with the tsunami thriller The Impossible, now weighs in with the Netflix feature, Society of the Snow (La Sociedad de la Nieve), reclaiming the real-life tragedy and story of human resilience — and,...
- 9/14/2023
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Netflix has debuted the teaser trailer for J.A. Bayona’s ‘Society of the Snow.’
In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which had been chartered to fly a rugby team to Chile, crashed in the heart of the Andes. Only 29 of its 45 passengers survived the accident. Trapped in one of the most hostile and inaccessible environments on the planet, they have to resort to extreme measures to stay alive.
Directed by J.A. Bayona, the cast includes Enzo Vogrincic (Numa Turcatti), Agustín Pardella (Nando Parrado), Matías Recalt (Roberto Canessa), Esteban Bigliardi (Javier Methol), Diego Vegezzi (Marcelo Perez), Fernando Contigiani García (Arturo Nogueira), Esteban Kukuriczka (Fito Strauch), Rafael Federman (Eduardo Strauss), Francisco Romero (Daniel Fernandez Strauch), Valentino Alonso (Pancho Delgado), Tomás Wolf (Gustavo Zerbino), Agustín Della Corte (Tintín Vizintín), Felipe Otaño (Carlitos Páez), Andy Pruss (Roy Harley), Blas Polidori (Coco), Felipe Ramusio (Diego Storm), Simón Hempe (Coche Inciarte)
Also in trailers – “First things first…...
In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which had been chartered to fly a rugby team to Chile, crashed in the heart of the Andes. Only 29 of its 45 passengers survived the accident. Trapped in one of the most hostile and inaccessible environments on the planet, they have to resort to extreme measures to stay alive.
Directed by J.A. Bayona, the cast includes Enzo Vogrincic (Numa Turcatti), Agustín Pardella (Nando Parrado), Matías Recalt (Roberto Canessa), Esteban Bigliardi (Javier Methol), Diego Vegezzi (Marcelo Perez), Fernando Contigiani García (Arturo Nogueira), Esteban Kukuriczka (Fito Strauch), Rafael Federman (Eduardo Strauss), Francisco Romero (Daniel Fernandez Strauch), Valentino Alonso (Pancho Delgado), Tomás Wolf (Gustavo Zerbino), Agustín Della Corte (Tintín Vizintín), Felipe Otaño (Carlitos Páez), Andy Pruss (Roy Harley), Blas Polidori (Coco), Felipe Ramusio (Diego Storm), Simón Hempe (Coche Inciarte)
Also in trailers – “First things first…...
- 8/24/2023
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
With fall festival season on the horizon, Netflix has unveiled the first teaser trailer for J.A. Bayona’s latest project, “Society of the Snow.” The survival drama, based on the true story of the crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in 1972, will have its world premiere as the Venice Film Festival’s closing night film on September 9.
Here’s the synopsis for the film, provided by Netflix:
In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which had been chartered to fly a rugby team to Chile, crashed in the heart of the Andes. Only 29 of its 45 passengers survived the accident. Trapped in one of the most hostile and inaccessible environments on the planet, they have to resort to extreme measures to stay alive.
“Society of the Snow” is based on the book of the same name by Pablo Vierci. Bayona, who directed “The Impossible” and “The Orphanage” as well as “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,...
Here’s the synopsis for the film, provided by Netflix:
In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which had been chartered to fly a rugby team to Chile, crashed in the heart of the Andes. Only 29 of its 45 passengers survived the accident. Trapped in one of the most hostile and inaccessible environments on the planet, they have to resort to extreme measures to stay alive.
“Society of the Snow” is based on the book of the same name by Pablo Vierci. Bayona, who directed “The Impossible” and “The Orphanage” as well as “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,...
- 8/24/2023
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
Exclusive: Spain’s J.A. Bayona has carved a niche for himself in survivalist drama, starting with 2012’s The Impossible, in which a family’s dream trip to Thailand becomes a nightmare when a tsunami destroys their luxury resort. It was based on a true story, unlike 2018’s Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom, which nevertheless featured human beings facing unimaginable odds when confronted by a terrifying new breed of carnivorous dinosaurs.
With his new Netflix production Society of the Snow, Bayona is back in the real world again, telling a story that might be his most extraordinary yet. Based on the book of the same name by Pablo Vierci, first published in 2008, it charts the story of the 45 people who, on October 13 1972, boarded Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 from Montevideo to Chile. There were five crew members on board and 40 passengers, including 19 members of the Old Christians Club rugby team. Tragedy struck when...
With his new Netflix production Society of the Snow, Bayona is back in the real world again, telling a story that might be his most extraordinary yet. Based on the book of the same name by Pablo Vierci, first published in 2008, it charts the story of the 45 people who, on October 13 1972, boarded Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 from Montevideo to Chile. There were five crew members on board and 40 passengers, including 19 members of the Old Christians Club rugby team. Tragedy struck when...
- 8/24/2023
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
Prisoners of the Snow: A Special Edition of 20/20 Preview
ABC News Studios presents “Prisoners of the Snow,” a new two-hour documentary recounting the harrowing tale of the 1972 Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571.
In this special edition of 20/20, the episodes chronicle the fateful flight carrying a rugby team, their friends, and family as they embarked on a journey to a match in Chile. However, tragedy struck when the plane crashed in a remote, snow-covered location in the treacherous Andes Mountains. Stranded and faced with insurmountable challenges, the survivors found themselves in a desperate struggle for survival.
This extraordinary tale of resilience, courage, and the indomitable human spirit will unfold before your eyes as we delve into the unimaginable circumstances faced by the survivors. Through interviews, archival footage, and dramatic reenactments, the episode will explore their harrowing ordeal and the choices they made to endure the unimaginable.
Featuring exclusive interviews with five survivors—Nando Parrado,...
ABC News Studios presents “Prisoners of the Snow,” a new two-hour documentary recounting the harrowing tale of the 1972 Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571.
In this special edition of 20/20, the episodes chronicle the fateful flight carrying a rugby team, their friends, and family as they embarked on a journey to a match in Chile. However, tragedy struck when the plane crashed in a remote, snow-covered location in the treacherous Andes Mountains. Stranded and faced with insurmountable challenges, the survivors found themselves in a desperate struggle for survival.
This extraordinary tale of resilience, courage, and the indomitable human spirit will unfold before your eyes as we delve into the unimaginable circumstances faced by the survivors. Through interviews, archival footage, and dramatic reenactments, the episode will explore their harrowing ordeal and the choices they made to endure the unimaginable.
Featuring exclusive interviews with five survivors—Nando Parrado,...
- 5/16/2023
- by News
- TV Regular
ABC News has dropped a trailer for “Prisoners of the Snow,” which will air on the network on May 22 and stream next day on Hulu.
The two-hour documentary tells the story of the 1972 Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which crashed into a remote location in the snow-covered Andes Mountains while carrying a rugby team traveling with family and friends to a match in Chile. Of the 45 passengers, only 16 survived the incident.
With reporting by ABC News contributor Chris Connelly, the two-hour documentary features new interviews with five of the crash survivors, Nando Parrado, Roberto Canessa, Carlitos Páez Rodríguez, Eduardo Strauch and Roy Harley, who share their firsthand accounts and stories of determination and perseverance, which helped inspire the popular series “Yellowjackets.”
The program also includes interviews with mountaineers, adventurers and survival experts who have studied their experience, visited the crash site and followed the escape route explaining the incredible challenges the passengers endured.
The two-hour documentary tells the story of the 1972 Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which crashed into a remote location in the snow-covered Andes Mountains while carrying a rugby team traveling with family and friends to a match in Chile. Of the 45 passengers, only 16 survived the incident.
With reporting by ABC News contributor Chris Connelly, the two-hour documentary features new interviews with five of the crash survivors, Nando Parrado, Roberto Canessa, Carlitos Páez Rodríguez, Eduardo Strauch and Roy Harley, who share their firsthand accounts and stories of determination and perseverance, which helped inspire the popular series “Yellowjackets.”
The program also includes interviews with mountaineers, adventurers and survival experts who have studied their experience, visited the crash site and followed the escape route explaining the incredible challenges the passengers endured.
- 5/12/2023
- by Lucas Manfredi
- The Wrap
On October 13, 1972, members of the Old Christians Rugby Football Club from Montevideo, Uruguay chartered a flight across the Andes mountains for an exhibition game in Chile. The plane crashed into the high mountain peaks initially killing 16 and leaving 29 stranded in the wreckage. 72 days later, 16 survivors emerged from the mountains, emaciated, injured and nearly snowblind, but grateful to be alive. Their harrowing story of survival was told in Piers Paul Read’s bestselling novel, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors.
Frank Marshall’s ambitious adaptation of this story premiered in 1993, shortly after the 20th anniversary of their rescue, reminding the world of this astounding feat of courage and perseverance. Usually classified as a drama, Alive is an authentic recreation of this harrowing ordeal and one of the best examples of true survival horror ever committed to film. Fifty years after the crash, Alive remains an inspiring example of hope in...
Frank Marshall’s ambitious adaptation of this story premiered in 1993, shortly after the 20th anniversary of their rescue, reminding the world of this astounding feat of courage and perseverance. Usually classified as a drama, Alive is an authentic recreation of this harrowing ordeal and one of the best examples of true survival horror ever committed to film. Fifty years after the crash, Alive remains an inspiring example of hope in...
- 11/22/2022
- by Jenn Adams
- bloody-disgusting.com
Just a few days after their plane crashed into the Andes, Dr. Roberto Canessa and the other survivors of Uruguayan Flight 571 were faced with an unthinkable ultimatum: eat the bodies of their friends who had died following the wreck - or perish themselves. Canessa was a 19-year-old second-year medical student when the plane he and his rugby teammates had chartered to carry them to a match crashed into the frozen mountains. It was he who first suggested to his fellow survivors, also his childhood friends, that they must resort to cannibalism in order to stay alive. With little hope of...
- 2/24/2016
- by Tierney McAfee, @tierneymcafee
- PEOPLE.com
Just a few days after their plane crashed into the Andes, Dr. Roberto Canessa and the other survivors of Uruguayan Flight 571 were faced with an unthinkable ultimatum: eat the bodies of their friends who had died following the wreck - or perish themselves. Canessa was a 19-year-old second-year medical student when the plane he and his rugby teammates had chartered to carry them to a match crashed into the frozen mountains. It was he who first suggested to his fellow survivors, also his childhood friends, that they must resort to cannibalism in order to stay alive. With little hope of...
- 2/24/2016
- by Tierney McAfee, @tierneymcafee
- PEOPLE.com
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