Netflix premieres “The Snow Society”, a film about tragedy, cannibalism and a pact where “the dead saved the living”

Netflix has kicked off its 2024 slate with the arrival of The Snow Company, a true story written and directed by Juan Antonio García Bayona that has 13 nominations at the Goya Awards and will represent Spain at the Oscars .

This film tells the story of the events that took place after a plane crash in the Andes in 1972, when a group of Uruguayans in their twenties were forced to eat the corpses of their fellow passengers in order to survive.

It is an extreme story in which the passengers of Flight 571 of the Uruguayan Air Force were trapped for 72 days in the Andes mountain range, reminds Telecinco. The entire tragedy and what happened in the following days were summed up in two hours and 24 minutes.

Of the 45 passengers and crew who boarded the Fairchild FH-227D charter flight from Montevideo to Santiago, Chile on October 13, 1972, 32 survived, but four died on the first night after the crash. Ultimately, by the rescue date of December 22, only 16 people had survived.

The story has already been shown in theaters and now with the actor it will arrive on Netflix from January 4th Enzo Vogrinčić in the role of Numa Turcatti, one of the protagonists and the last in this tragedy who died before the rescue.

“For the living, there had to be the dead”, is one of the sentences used by the Spanish media to portray that notorious tragedy in which there was a survival pact that included the practice of cannibalism, although in Juan Antonio García Bayon’s narrative this theme recedes into second plan and ceases to be the center of discussion in order to give more value to friendship.

According to Daniel Fernández Strauch, one of the 16 survivors, it is a very real film that transported him to that time and the difficult moments he spent on that mountain.

“Seeing her was like being on a plane again. It is very real. I left the room exhausted. I saw myself in an accident, I saw myself in an avalanche, I saw myself in everything. I understand that 72 days can’t be summed up in a little more than two hours, but I think whoever sees it will understand what we went through and how,” recalled Fernández Strauch, who returned home after those 72 days. days of “hell” and who had to justify the pact they made in order to survive.

“It was food, period,” he said to justify that he and his cousins ​​Fito and Eduardo had prepared the bodies of their deceased companions so that they could then eat.

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