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- Alive is a 1993 American biographical survival drama film based on Piers Paul Read 's 1974 book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, which details a Uruguayan rugby team's crash aboard Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 into the Andes mountains on October 13, 1972.
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Alive tells the story of an Uruguayan rugby team (who were alumni of Stella Maris College), and their friends and family who were involved in the airplane crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571. The plane crashed into the Andes mountains on Friday 13 October 1972.
- Piers Paul Read
- 1974
Jun 17, 2023 · ‘Alive’ is an eye-opening survival drama movie heavily based on the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crash. In October of 1972, the Old Christians Club rugby union team, an Uruguayan club from Montevideo, was supposed to go up against the Santiago, Chile, based Old Boys Club.
- Greg Macarthur
- Matías Recalt
- J.A. Bayona
- Senior Staff Writer
- Alive & Society Of The Snow Have Slightly Different Endings. Alive and Society of the Snow have slightly different endings, particularly in how they deal with the aftermath and the hospitalization of the 16 survivors.
- The Names Of The Real-Life Deceased Were Changed In Alive. Society of the Snow depicts all of the real-life passengers and survivors by their actual names, while the names of the deceased are not used in Alive.
- Alive Does Not Include Real-Life Savior Sergio Catalán. Alive makes several alterations to the real-life rescue of the survivors, particularly how Roberto and Nando were first discovered by a Chilean man on horseback.
- Several Real-Life Passengers Are Not Depicted In Alive. Several real-life passengers are not depicted in Alive, including Gaton Costemalle, Alexis Hounie, Guido Magri, Felipe Maquirriain, and Julio Martinez-Lamas.
On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes. Out of the forty-five original passengers and crew, only sixteen made it off the mountain alive.
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- Piers Paul Read
Feb 19, 2008 · It’s one of the 20th century’s greatest survival epics: A plane crashes high in the Andes leaving 32 people stranded with little food except the bodies of the dead. As even that supply dwindles,...
- Mary Anne Potts
Jan 10, 2024 · Alive’s Chilling Survival Story Landed 31 Years Ago. More than three decades before Netflix’s Society of the Snow, which revisits the true story of the 1972 Andes flight disaster, Alive made an indelible impact.
Jan 15, 1993 · The story of the Andes survivors may be one of them. After their plane crashed high in the mountains on a flight to Chile, they survived for most of a winter in the shell of their wrecked aircraft, living on wine, chocolate and the flesh of their dead comrades.
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