'Society of the Snow': A Harrowing Tale of Survival and Determination

Netflix's film, based on the 1972 Andes flight disaster, earns praise for its realism and accuracy from the survivors.

Netflix's 'Society of the Snow' is a dramatized account of the 1972 Andes flight disaster, where a plane carrying 40 passengers and five crew members, many of them male teenage members of the Old Christians Club rugby union team, crashed in the Andes Mountains.
The survivors were stranded for 71 days in the remote heart of the Andes, facing brutal conditions and were forced to resort to cannibalism to survive.
The film is based on the 2008 novel 'La Sociedad de la Nieve' (Society of the Snow), written by Pablo Vierci, a classmate of the plane crash survivors.
The film's director, J.A. Bayona, conducted extensive research and interviewed the survivors for hours to capture the story with the maximum level of realism.
The survivors and the remaining team members have expressed their satisfaction with the film, praising its accuracy and realism.