Stranded

The Uruguayan survivors of a plane crash in the Andes, who kept themselves alive for ten weeks look back on their experiences.

The incredible survival story of the Uruguayan rugby team that survived a plane crash in 1972 and managed to stay alive for more than ten weeks on a 4000 metre high glacier in the Andes 35 years later, is as spectacular as ever. Not in the least because they were forced to eat human flesh. Director Gonzalo Arijon, an old friend of the survivors, first uses dramatised scenes to reconstruct that particular day when the elated boys boarded the plane and not much later encountered a heavy storm and crashed into a mountain ridge. Arijon takes the survivors (of the original 45 passengers, sixteen men came home alive) and their children to the crash site. Sitting in this Valley of Tears, the men (not a single woman survived the accident) explain how they made it through the endless weeks on the secluded glacier with nothing more than cigarettes, a radio and the shelter of the wreckage. One by one, the details unfold, showing how and when they decided to cut into a killed travelling companion. "I decided I wanted to live." The interviews are illustrated with recovered photographs and footage of the tumultuous press conference upon their return to civilisation.本片讲述的是1972年轰动世界的安第斯空难事件中幸存者的故事。
　　1972年，一架载着乌拉圭橄榄球队全体队员的包机在安第斯山脉发生空难，多名幸存者困在4000米高的山上，以死者尸体充饥，在冰天雪地中熬过了十多个星期。即使在35年后的今天回忆起当时发生的一切，依然让人惊心动魄。作为幸存者的朋友，导演贡扎多再现了当年意外发生那天的场景。片中，导演带领幸存者和他们的孩子重返故地（45名乘客，共幸存16名男乘客）。在坠机地点，幸存的男人们（此次空难没有一名女性生还）描述了当年如何靠香烟、一台收音机以及飞机残骸在雪山中熬过十多个星期的。影片向观众一点点揭示了幸存者们在怎样的情况下最终决定吃同伴的尸体充饥，又是如何得到救援。影片采用了人物采访与情景再现的形式，极具震撼力。
　　

Joris Ivens Award at IDFA(2007)
DGA Award Nomination at Directors Guild of America(2009)
Best Documentary Award Nomination at European Film Awards(2008)
Grand Jury Prize Nomination at Sundance Film Festival(2008)阿姆斯特丹纪录片电影节"尤里斯•伊文思"奖(2007)
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