First Teaser and Look at J.A. Bayona’s Doomed Uruguayan Flight Drama ‘Society of the Snow’
Netflix has released the first teaser trailer for J.A. Bayona’a Society of the Snow, the retelling of the one of the most terrifying accidents in the history of Uruguay.
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.
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.
The story, which was told in 1993 in the film Alive and starred Ethan Hawke, is written by J.A. Bayona, Bernat Vilaplana, Jaime Marques and Nicolás Casariego, based on the book ‘The Society of the Snow’ by Pablo Vierci. It is produced by Belén Atienza, Sandra Hermida and J.A. Bayona.
Society of the Snow will have its World Premiere at Venice Film Festival as the closing night film on September 9, 2023 and follow in the Pearl’s section at San Sebastian Film Festival.
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