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Survive! (1976)

Survive! poster
Original title
Supervivientes de los Andes
Directed by
René Cardona, René Cardona Jr.
Genre
drama film
Country
Mexico
Runtime
1h 25m
Rated
R
Rating
5.9 of 10 from 45 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This film tells the true story of passengers from a plane crash in the Andes mountains. They struggle to stay alive in freezing conditions with little food.

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What happens

Survive! (Spanish: Supervivientes de los Andes – Andes Survivors) is a 1976 Mexican thriller film directed by René Cardona. The film was released in Mexico on January 15, 1976, based on Clay Blair's 1973 unauthorized paperback, Survive!, and is the first feature film to present the story of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571. The English-language version of the film was substantially altered from the original. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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