With an unusual display in Spanish-speaking cinema, The Snow Society It was one of the big events of 2023. After a brief run in movie theaters, the film landed on January 4 in Netflixwhere it became a truly global phenomenon.
Today, on the day that marks 52 years since the rescue of the 26 survivors of the so-called “tragedy of the Andes”, the platform and the survivors once again put the tape at the center of the conversation, as a tribute to those Those who risked everything in pursuit of their companions are no longer there.
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“In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which had been chartered to take 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 will have to resort to extreme measures to stay alive,” reads the official synopsis of the acclaimed film that represented Spain in the last installment of the Oscar.
It is precisely the closing of the film that is commemorated today, the arrival of the helicopters that rescued those who were still on the mountain, guided by Fernando Parrado, one of the survivors who crossed the Andes on foot in an odyssey that took 10 days and who managed to find the necessary help to rescue the rest.
Yes ok JA Bayona decided to show the rescue in one go, the truth is that it was carried out in two parts. While on December 22, a portion of the survivors were rescued (especially the most injured), it was on December 23 that the remainder were transferred to Chile along with the rescue team that spent the night with them in the mountains. . The reason for this trip in two parts was because the helicopters did not have the capacity to transport them all in a single day and, due to the conditions in the area, it was difficult to make both trips in the same day.
For the survivors, the 23rd is the day marked as the end of the 72-day odyssey in the Andes, which culminated with the return to life of 16 of the crew of the Fairchild FH-227D, which never reached its destination. This journey, which Bayonne narrates like no other director, he is proof, even 52 years after the accident, of the power of human beings to overcome adversities whatever their nature.
