Stranded: I've Come from a Plane that Crashed on the Mountains (2007)

Original title

Stranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains

Directed by

Gonzalo Arijón

Genre

documentary film

Country

Argentina, France, Uruguay, United States

Runtime

2h 07m

Rating

8.1 of 10 from 31 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary tells the story of a Uruguayan rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes in 1972. Survivors struggle for 72 days in harsh conditions, and the film uses their own accounts to show what happened.

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What happens

Stranded: I've Come from a Plane that Crashed on the Mountains is a 2007 documentary film which tells the story of a rugby team from Uruguay whose plane, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, crashed in the Andes Mountains on October 13, 1972. The documentary recounts the struggle to survive by the people on board who survived the initial crash and by the 16 people who were found alive for 72 days, out of a total of 45 passenger and crew. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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