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The film closed the 80th Venice International Film Festival in an Out of Competition slot.[9] It was theatrically released in Uruguay on 13 December 2023,[10] in Spain on 15 December 2023,[11] and in the US on 22 December 2023,[12] before streaming on Netflix on 4 January 2024.[13]
Society of the Snow received positive reviews. At the 96th Academy Awards, it was nominated for the Best International Feature Film, representing Spain, and Best Makeup and Hairstyling.[14]
Plot[edit]
In 1972, the Uruguayan Air Force flight 571, chartered to transport a rugby team to Santiago, Chile, experiences an unexpected incident and crashes into a glacier in the heart of the Andes. Of the 45 passengers on board, only 16 manage to survive. Trapped in one of the most inaccessible and hostile environments on the planet, they are forced to resort to cannibalism to stay alive. Their survival will depend on the decisions they make in the midst of this desperate situation.
Cast[edit]
- Enzo Vogrincic as Numa Turcatti
- Matías Recalt as Roberto Canessa
- Agustín Pardella as Nando Parrado
- Tomas Wolf as Gustavo Zerbino
- Diego Vegezzi as Marcelo Pérez del Castillo
- Esteban Kukuriczka as Adolfo "Fito" Strauch
- Francisco Romero as Daniel Fernández Strauch
- Rafael Federman as Eduardo Strauch
- Felipe González Otaño as Carlitos Páez
- Agustín Della Corte as Antonio "Tintín" Vizintín
- Valentino Alonso as Alfredo "Pancho" Delgado
- Simón Hempe as José Luis "Coche" Inciarte
- Fernando Contigiani García as Arturo Nogueira
- Benjamín Segura as Rafael "el Vasco" Echavarren
- Rocco Posca as Ramón "Moncho" Sabella
- Luciano Chatton as Pedro Algorta
- Agustín Berruti as Bobby François
- Juan Caruso as Álvaro Mangino
- Andy Pruss as Roy Harley
- Santiago Vaca Narvaja as Daniel Maspons
- Esteban Bigliardi as Javier Methol
- Paula Baldini as Liliana Methol
- Federico Aznarez as Enrique Platero
- Alfonsina Carrocio as Susana Parrado
- Silvia Giselle Pereyra as Eugenia Parrado
- Virginia Kaufmann as Esther Nicola
- Felipe Ramusio as Diego Storm
- Blas Polidori as Gustavo Nicolich
- Emanuel Parga as Carlos Roque
- Iair Said as Julio César Ferradas
- Juan Diego Eirea as Juan Carlos Menéndez
- Louta as Gastón Costemalle
- Lautaro Bakir as Julio Martínez Lamas
- Jerónimo Bosia as Francisco "Pancho" Abal
- Lucas Mascareña as Fernando Vázquez
- Julián Bedino as Guido Magri
- Toto Rovito as Alexis Hounié
- Federico Formento as Daniel Shaw
- Tea Alberti as Graciela Augusto de Mariani
- Agustín Lain as Carlos Valeta
- Francisco Bereny as Felipe Maquirriaín
- Juan José Marco as Ovidio Ramírez
- Carlos "Carlitos" Páez as his father, Carlos Páez Vilaró[15]
- Maximiliano de la Cruz as Dante Lagurara
Production[edit]
Bayona discovered Vierci's book while researching for his 2012 film The Impossible, and bought the rights for the book when he finished filming that movie. The filmmakers recorded more than 100 hours of interviews with all of the living survivors. The actors had contact with the survivors and the families of the victims.[20] Society of the Snow was announced in November 2021.
Principal photography took place in Sierra Nevada, Spain; Montevideo, Uruguay; Chile and Argentina, including the actual crash site in the Andes.[21] Filming in Sierra Nevada lasted from 10 January to 29 April 2022.[22][15] Filming in Uruguay concluded in late July 2022,[18][23][15] and the production continued in Madrid.[18] Production took the total of 138 shooting days, with its budget reported to be over €65 million.[24]
In August 2021, the second unit, headed by Alejandro Fadel, Argentine director of Murder Me, Monster, filmed landscapes in Chile for reference in on-set virtual production and post-production.[8][7][25] In Sierra Nevada, the production was challenged by a scarcity of snow, and by Saharan Air Layer which covered the mountains with orange dust.[8][26] Three replicas of fuselage wreckages were used: one was placed in a hangar built on a parking lot,[27] another was buried in artificial snow and supported by a hydraulic crane that allowed for it to be moved, and the third was placed above a tarn at an altitude of 3,000 m (9,800 ft).[7][8][25] In the hangar, a 30-metre-tall screen displayed the second unit's footage of the Andes.[8][26][25] The third unit was tasked with more dangerous mountain shots.[8] The three units consisted of around 300 workers.[7][8]
David Martí and Montse Ribé, Academy Award–winning special effects makeup artists of Pan's Labyrinth, created prosthetic corpses and wounds.[8][25] Post-production was planned to last about five months involving 300 personnel.[8][7] Vierci, who serves as an associate producer, visited the set in Sierra Nevada.[7]
Bayona showed an early version of the film to one of the survivors, José Luis "Coche" Inciarte, before he died in July 2023.[24] The 14 remaining survivors saw the film one or two months prior to the premiere.[