Society of the Snow

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.

Cast

Enzo Vogrincic

as Numa Turcatti

Agustín Pardella

as Fernando "Nando" Parrado

Matías Recalt

as Roberto Canessa

Esteban Bigliardi

as Javier Methol

Diego Vegezzi

as Marcelo Pérez del Castillo

Fernando Contigiani García

as Arturo Nogueira

Esteban Kukuriczka

as Adolfo "Fito" Strauch

Francisco Romero

as Daniel Fernández Strauch

Rafael Federman

as Eduardo Strauch

Valentino Alonso

as Alfredo "Pancho" Delgado

Reviews

Manuel São Bento

FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://fandomwire.com/society-of-the-snow-review-a-harrowing-tale/ "Society of the Snow unquestionably solidifies J. A. Bayona's status as an absurdly underrated filmmaker. One of the most unbelievable, harrowing survival stories ever recreated, brought to life by a...

Ritesh Mohapatra

Society of the Snow is an incredible yet harrowing survival drama exemplifying true grit and trauma My Score : 90/100 Based on true events and a book by the same name, Society Of The Snow follows the story of a Uruguayan Rugby team whose plane crashes in the Andes Mountains while being on thei...

Chandler Danier

Pass me another piece of Society of the Snow. One shot of them walking the ridge made me nauseous. Mind-bending natural prison takes a while to come to light. Nice and personal, close shots keep the focus on the characters otherwise. Great crash scene. Ooohhhh my ankles....

BornKnight

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 80t...

CinemaSerf

If you're at all familiar with Ethan Hawke's "Alive" (1993) then you'll have the gist of this story of the Uruguayan rugby team whose aircraft came down after heavy turbulence, stranding them amidst the wreckage high up in the Andes mountains. Of the forty who embarked, only sixteen remain and it no...

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