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Survive! (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Survive!' (Spanish: 'Supervivientes de los Andes' - 'Andes Survivors') is a 1976 Mexican thriller film directed by Ren Cardona The film was released on January 15, 1976 in Mexico and is based on the 1973 book 'Survive!' by Clay Blair, which is based on the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571.
Premise
A Uruguayan rugby team crashes in the Andes Mountains and has to survive the extremely cold temperatures and rough climate. As some of the people die, the survivors are forced to make a terrible decision between starvation and cannibalism.
Cast
*Hugo Stiglitz as Francisco
*Norma Lazareno as Silvia
*Luz Mara Aguilar as Mrs. Madero
*Fernando Larraaga as Madero
*Pablo Ferrel as Ral
*Leonardo Daniel as Carmelo
*Sara Guasch as Mam de Silvia
*Gloria Chvez as Mujer que va a boda (as Gloria Chaves)
*Jos Elas Moreno as Rodrigo Fernndez
Reception
'The New York Times' gave a negative review for 'Survive!', calling it "an irksomely dubbed film of rudimentary exposition with a sometimes tinny musical accompaniment". Roger Ebert gave the film zero stars, saying, "In most movies featuring a lot of blood and cuts and close-ups of festering wounds and all that, the typical audience laughs to break the tension (horror movies almost always play as comedies). With 'Survive!' though, the audience tends to be a little more sober, a little more thoughtful. Maybe that's because we realize that underlying this rather dumb, uninspired, even crude film is a true story of such compelling power that we're forced to think and respond."
Over the Labor Day weekend 1976, the film opened in Chicago and grossed $1,060,000 from 63 theaters which propelled it to number one at the US box office.
See also
*'Alive' (1993)
References
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