Director: J. A. Bayona
Based on one of the most harrowing survival accounts of the twentieth century, this Spanish-language drama follows a rugby team stranded in the Andes after their chartered flight goes down.
What is Society Of The Snow about?
On October 13, 1972, a plane carrying a Uruguayan rugby squad and their families loses altitude over the mountains and crashes into a remote glacier, leaving the survivors stranded far from any hope of rescue. As days stretch into weeks, the group faces plunging temperatures, dwindling supplies, and the slow erosion of the rules that governed their lives before the crash. Director J. A. Bayona builds the story from the inside out, focusing less on spectacle and more on the choices survivors made to keep each other alive against odds that seemed designed to kill them. The film moves between despair and flickers of resolve, tracking how a group of strangers-turned-family negotiated impossible decisions in near-total isolation, until a desperate trek across the mountains finally reaches the outside world.
Cast & crew
Enzo Vogrincic leads a largely Uruguayan and Argentine ensemble as Numa Turcatti, delivering a performance built on quiet endurance rather than heroics. Agustín Pardella and Matías Recalt bring urgency to the survivors pushing hardest for a way out, while the wider cast, many of them relative newcomers, gives the group scenes a lived-in, documentary-like weight.
Context & significance
The 1972 Andes flight disaster has been retold before, but this adaptation, based on Pablo Vierci's book, was made with input from the real survivors and their families, aiming for accuracy over sensationalism. Bayona shot much of the film at high altitude with the actual crash site's terrain in mind, and the production's attention to physical detail, frostbite, altitude sickness, the sheer scale of the mountains, shapes nearly every scene.
Where & how to watch
Society of the Snow is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, letting viewers follow the survivors' ordeal fully in Farsi. The page can be read by anyone, while streaming the film itself requires signing into a K-Time account, part of a viewing experience built around Farsi-language navigation for Persian-speaking audiences everywhere.