By Axel Saenz
HAVANA TIMES – Recently I’ve been hearing about a movie called “Society of the Snow”, which is on Netflix, and seeing the cover I said to myself: I’ve already seen this movie.
I didn’t realize that “Society of the Snow” was released on January 4, 2024, until it was explained to me. I was surprised to wonder how I could have seen something that had just been released. The key is that I saw a different movie a long time ago called “Alive!”, made in the 1990s, which is about the same event as “Society of the Snow”. In addition, there is another even older Mexican film titled “Survive!”.
All the film adaptations come from books such as “Survive!” written by Clair Blair Jr, “Alive!” written by Piers Paul Read and “Society of the Snow” written by Pablo Verci. All are books based on the interviews they had with the 16 survivors of that fateful accident.
The plot tells the true story of the Uruguayan rugby team Old Christians Club from Carrasco, whose members were students from Stella Maris School in Montevideo. They were traveling to Santiago, Chile, on board Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 with their friends and family to play a friendly match, but their plane crashed while trying to fly over the Andes Mountains on October 13, 1972.
It is very hard to watch the characters struggle in the first act of the movie, which is the crash itself and the chaos that comes when the plane stays stuck in the snow. The only thing besi
