Stranded - The Andes Plane Crash Survivors

France 2007, 113 minutes
In Spanish with English subtitles
Rating: [M]
Genres: Foreign Cinema, Documentary / Adventure

Aroview: Inspiring first-hand account of the devastating ordeal suffered by members of a Uruguayan rugby team whose plane famously crashed in the Andes Mountains in 1972.

Famously forced to eat the bodies of their deceased team-mates in order to subsist for months in freezing conditions, this sensitive, definitive record looks well beyond the sensational headlines to reveal a haunting, incredible tale of human survival at its most extreme.

Also made into the Hollywood feature film, ALIVE, in 1992.

NZ International Film Festival 2008