Juan Antonio Bayona (The Impossible, The Orphanage) is in charge of the production that tells the story based on the book of the same name by Pablo Vierci.
The Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona directs The Snow Society a film that leads to Netflix the tragedy of the Andes that occurred in 1972.
“In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, chartered to take a rugby team to Chile, crashes into a glacier in the heart of the Andes. Only 29 of its 45 passengers survived the accident. Trapped in one of the most inaccessible and hostile environments on the planet, are forced to resort to extreme measures to stay alive,” indicates the synopsis shared by the streaming platform.
Trailer for The Snow Society
The movie is based on the book The Snow Society of Pablo Vierci. The script is written by JA Bayona, Bernat Vilaplana, Jaime Marques and Nicolás Casariego. The cast is made up of: Enzo Vogrincic Roldán, Matías Recalt, Agustín Pardella, Tomas Wolf, Diego Ariel Vegezzi, Esteban Kukuriczka, Francisco Romero, Rafael Federman, Felipe González Otaño, Agustín Della Corte, Valentino Alonso, Simón Hempe, Fernando Contigiani García, Benjamín Segura, Jerónimo Bosia.
Said JA Bayona: “It was during the documentation process for The Impossible that I discovered The Snow Society, Pablo Vierci’s fascinating chronicle of the tragedy of the Andes. More than ten years later, my fascination with the novel remains intact and I am happy to face the challenge that lies ahead of me: to tell one of the most remembered events of the 20th century, with all the complexity that a story implies that gives as much importance to the survivors as to those who never returned from the mountain. Furthermore, I face it in Spanish , to which I return excited after 14 years without filming in my language, and with a cast of young Uruguayan and Argentine actors with whom I am enthusiastic.”
Filming took place in Sierra Nevada (Andalusia), Montevideo (Uruguay) and in different locations in the Andes (both in Chile and Argentina) including The Valley of Tears, the real location where the story took place.
Source: Ambito
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