Directed by J.A. Bayona (A Monster Calls) and co-written with Bernat Vilaplana, Jaime Marques and Nicolás Casariego,
Society of the Snow tells the story of the
infamous Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which crashed in the Andes in 1972,
leading to its passengers to resort to cannibalism in order to
survive.
Based on Pablo Vierci's book of the same name, the film stars Enzo Vogrincic, Agustín Pardella, Matías Recalt, Esteban Bigliardi,
Diego Vegezzi, Fernando Contigiani García, Esteban Kukuriczka, Rafael
Federman, Francisco Romero, Valentino Alonso, Tomás Wolf, Agustín Della
Corte, Felipe Otaño, Andy Pruss, Blas Polidori, Felipe Ramusio
and Simón Hempe.
Society of the Snow will premiere at the Venice Film
Festival on September 9th and will be released on Netflix at a later
date.
Check out the trailer and poster below.
The official synopsis reads:
In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which had been chartered to fly 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 have to resort to extreme measures to stay alive.
