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It is one of the most astonishing and inspiring survival tales of all time.
On October 13, 1972, a young rugby team from Montevideo, Uruguay,
boarded a plane for a match in Chile—and then vanished into thin air.
Two days before Christmas, 16 of the 45 passengers miraculously
resurfaced. They had managed to survive for 72 days after their plane
crashed on a remote Andean glacier. Thirty-five years later, the survivors
return to the crash site—known as the Valley of Tears—to recount their
harrowing story of defiant endurance and indestructible friendship.
Previously documented in the 1973 worldwide bestseller Alive (and the
1993 Ethan Hawke movie of the same name), this shocking true story
finally gets the cinematic treatment it deserves. Visually breathtaking and
crafted with riveting detail by documentary filmmaker (and childhood
friend of the survivors) Gonzalo Arijón with a masterful combination of
on-location interviews, archival footage and reenactments, Stranded is by
turns hauntingly powerful and spiritually moving. |
