Society of the Snow (2023) Poster

Enzo Vogrincic: Numa Turcatti

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  • Numa Turcatti : [on a handwritten note passed to his friends]  There is no greater love than that which gives one's life for one's friends.

  • Numa Turcatti : Don't lose faith.

    Arturo Nogueira : I have more faith than I ever had in my whole life.

    Numa Turcatti : What, are you an altar boy now?

    Arturo Nogueira : Don't laugh at me. But my faity - sorry, Numa - isn't in your God. Because that God tells me what I'm supposed to do at home. But He doesn't tell me what to do on the mountain. What's happening here is a completely different situation. Numa. This is my heaven. I believe in another god. I believe in the god that Roberto keeps inside his head when he comes to heal each of my wounds. In the god that Nando keeps in his legs and that lets him continue walking no matter what. I believe in Daniel's hands when he cuts the meat. And Fito, when he gives it to us without saying which of our friends it belonged to. That way, we can eat it without... without having to remember their faces. That's the god I believe in.

  • [first lines] 

    Numa Turcatti : On October 13, 1972, an Uruguayan plane crashed in the Andean Mountain Range. Forty of us passengers and five crew members were on board the plane. Some say it was a tragedy. Others call it a miracle. What really happened? What happens when the world abandons you? When you have no clothes and you're frezing? When you have no food, and you're dying? The answer's in the mountain. We have to go back to the past to understand that the past is what changes the most.

  • [last lines] 

    Numa Turcatti : [narrating]  Now when they remember us, they ask themselves: Why didn't we all get to come back? What does it all mean? You'll need to find out yourselves. 'Cause the answer is in you.

    Numa Turcatti : Keep taking care of each other. And tell everyone what we did on the mountain.

  • Numa Turcatti : Nando, I want you to know you have permission to use my body.

    Fernando 'Nando' Parrado : Numa, don't talk like that.

    Numa Turcatti : I know I'm not making it out.

    Fernando 'Nando' Parrado : Don't say that.

    Numa Turcatti : It's the truth. But it's okay. I'm at peace with it. I'm ready for whatever's next. Both of us are. And I'm so happy to know that you're all gonna make it. That makes me happy, Nando.

  • Numa Turcatti : This is a place where life is impossible. Out here, we are an anomaly.

  • Numa Turcatti : [narrating]  Night falls like an ambush. In the span of minutes, the temperature drops 86 degrees. If the plane crash didn't kill us, the cold will. We huddle together the best we can. Living and dead, as one.

  • Numa Turcatti : I don't understand, Javier. From the very first moment we crashed in this place, I've tried to help as much as I could. I tried... to always do the right thing, you know? And now, with my leg like this... I'm useless. What does it all mean? What's the meaning of the death of Arturo? The death of Vasco? Or the death of everybody else?

    Javier Methol : Liliana gave everything. Always. During the avalanche, while buried under the snow, I could feel her body underneath mine. I remember there were only a few inches between me and the surface. I could actually put my head out and shout at her with all the strength I had, "Liliana, hold on!" "I'll get you out. I'm alive, love." I saw them stepping over where she was and I shouted "Oh, my God! Don't step on her! Don't! Don't step on her please! Liliana is trapped below!" But there was simply no way to get her out if I didn't get out first. But I was unable to move because my feet were pressed against her chest. And if I pushed against her, it would make her sink deeper and deeper. What is the meaning of that, Numa? When we finally got to Liliana, she was just a lifeless corpse. At that moment, as they kept digging up friends, one dead, one alive, one dead, one alive... then... I hugged Liliana with all my strength. And I felt a love I'd never felt in my life. And I realized that I had a purpose, which was to take that love that I was squeezing there against my chest and bring it to my kids back home. Her death was not in vain. That wound doesn't make you useless.

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