Society of the Snow

Movie Details:

Cast & Characters:

• 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
• Pablo Tate as Francisco Nicola
• 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
• Mariano Rochman as Ramón Martínez
• Juan Diego Eirea as Juan Carlos Menéndez
• Jaime James Louta (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
• Maximiliano de la Cruz as Dante Lagurara

Storyline:

In 1972, the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, chartered to fly a rugby team to Chile, catastrophically crashes on a glacier in the heart of the Andes. Only 16 of the 40 passengers survived the crash, and finding themselves in one of the world’s toughest environments, they are forced to resort to extreme measures to stay alive.

About Movie:

Society of the Snow (Spanish: La sociedad de la nieve) is a survival drama film directed by J. A. Bayona and based on Pablo Vierci’s 2009 book of the same name, which details the true story of a Uruguayan rugby team’s experience in 1972 after Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed in the Andes mountains. The cast is composed of Uruguayan and Argentine actors, most of whom are newcomers.

The film closed the 80th Venice International Film Festival in an Out of Competition slot. It was theatrically released in Uruguay on 13 December 2023, in Spain on 15 December 2023, and in the US on 22 December 2023, before streaming on Netflix on 4 January 2024.

Society of the Snow received positive reviews. It won 12 awards including Best Picture and Best Director at the 38th Goya Awards. At the 96th Academy Awards, it was nominated for the Best International Feature Film, representing Spain, and Best Makeup and Hairstyling.