Society of the Snow

Original title: La sociedad de la nieve

2023
R
2h 24m

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7.8/10

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Enzo Vogrincic in Society of the Snow (2023)

The flight of a rugby team crashes on a glacier in the Andes. The few passengers who survive the crash find themselves in one of the world's toughest environments to survive.

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The flight of a rugby team crashes on a glacier in the Andes. The few passengers who survive the crash find themselves in one of the world's toughest environments to survive.The flight of a rugby team crashes on a glacier in the Andes. The few passengers who survive the crash find themselves in one of the world's toughest environments to survive.The flight of a rugby team crashes on a glacier in the Andes. The few passengers who survive the crash find themselves in one of the world's toughest environments to survive.

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IMDb RATING

7.8/10

151K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

916

See production info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 47 wins & 69 nominations total

Trivia
Filmed in chronological order to allow the actors to steadily lose weight to accurately portray the effects of starvation.

Goofs
When the Chilean Air Force helicopters arrive to rescue the survivors, a civilian who looks like a member of the media starts capturing a reel of the rest of the plane and the survivors waving their hands. In reality, it wasn't a journalist who did this, but a member of the Air Force. The helicopter rescue was a hazardous trip in itself. The copters only had space to fit the survivors. A Chilean television crew loaned a camera to the copilot of one of the helicopters so he could shoot the images.

Quotes
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.

Connections
Featured in Society of the Snow: Who Were We on the Mountain? (2024)

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8/10

Spanish Disaster Movie by Juan Antonio BAYONA

Since the tsunami shocker THE IMPOSSIBLE with Naomi WATTS and Tom HOLLAND, it has been known that the Spanish director Juan Antonio BAYONA has a very good hand for disaster films. He stages the respective catastrophes in a powerful and visually overwhelming way, approaching those affected by an unexpected event with great tact and sensitivity.

Based on the novel LA SOCIEDAD DE LA NIEVE by Pablo VIERCI, BAYONA tells the well-known story of a rugby team from Montevideo in Uruguay that crashes in the Andes on a flight to Chile. What follows is a long ordeal lasting several months, which the few survivors only survive because they cross one last taboo...

This addresses the questions that none of us want to imagine: What would we do to stay alive in a hopeless situation? The author Pablo VIERCI probably went to school in Montevideo with some of those affected, but was not himself on Flight 571 in October 1972. Nevertheless, the plot seems very believable and also includes the perspective of those who didn't make it.

BAYONA has created a very excellent film that uses beautiful images to tell of the horror of the deepest abyss that people can fall into. The technically outstanding film was awarded two EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS for visual effects and make-up. It also received a GOLDEN GLOBE nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. Completely right!

With films like THE PLATFORM, BELOW ZERO and most recently NOWHERE, the global streaming service NETFLIX has proven that it has an excellent hand for Spanish-language cinema. THE SOCIETY OF THE SNOW will most certainly continue this success story.