''Survive!'' (

Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many countries in the Americas **Spanish cuisine **Spanish history **Spanish culture ...

: ''Supervivientes de los Andes'' – ''Andes Survivors'') is a 1976 Mexican

thriller film Thriller film, also known as suspense film or suspense thriller, is a broad film genre that evokes excitement and suspense in the audience. The suspense element found in most films' plots is particularly exploited by the filmmaker in this genre. ...

directed by

René Cardona René Cardona (October 8, 1905 – April 25, 1988) was a Mexican director, actor, producer, screenwriter, and film editor, who was prominent during part of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Biography René Cardona was born in Havana, Cuba, on ...

. The film was released in Mexico on January 15, 1976, based on

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's 1973 unauthorized paperback, ''Survive!'', presenting the story of

Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 was the chartered flight of a Fairchild FH-227D from Montevideo, Uruguay, to Santiago, Chile, that crashed in the Andes mountains in Argentina on 13 October 1972. The accident and subsequent survival became known ...

. The English-language version of the film was substantially altered from the original.

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 Hugo Stiglitz López, better known simply as Hugo Stiglitz, (born August 28, 1940, in Mexico City) is a Mexican actor. Stiglitz is perhaps most well known for his film roles in the 1970s and 1980s in Mexico in such horror films as '' Tintorera ...

as Francisco *

Norma Lazareno Norma Lazareno (born 5 November 1943) is a Mexican film and television actress.Greene, p. 176. Filmography Televisión * ''La mexicana y el güero'' (2021) - Doña Crucita Rojas * '' Simplemente María'' (2015-2016) - Olivia Aparicio Vda. de ...

as Silvia *

Luz María Aguilar Luz María Aguilar Torres (born 26 March 1935) is a Mexican actress from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Aguilar has worked as an actress in theatre, cinema and television. One of her main roles was in the series ''Hogar, dulce hogar'' for ...

as Mrs. Madero * Fernando Larrañaga as Madero * Pablo Ferrel as Raúl *

Leonardo Daniel Leonardo Daniel (; born 26 July 1954) is a Mexican actor An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the t ...

as Carmelo *

Sara Guasch Sara Guasch (21 November 1918 – 1 June 2005) was a Chilean-born actress who spent much of her career working in Mexico.Bloom p.27 She appeared in more than seventy films and television programmes. She is also known as Sara Guash. Selected filmog ...

as Mamá de Silvia * Gloria Chávez as Mujer que va a boda (as Gloria Chaves) *

José Elías Moreno José Elías Moreno (12 November 1910 – 15 July 1969) was a Mexican character actor. He appeared in more than 180 films between 1937 and 1969. He was from the state of Jalisco. His José Elías Moreno Jr., son of the same name, born in 1956 ...

as Rodrigo Fernández

Reception

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'' gave a negative review for ''Survive!'', calling it "an irksomely dubbed film of rudimentary exposition with a sometimes tinny musical accompaniment".

Roger Ebert Roger Joseph Ebert ( ; June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American Film criticism, film critic, film historian, journalist, essayist, screenwriter and author. He wrote for the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' from 1967 until his death in 2013. Eber ...

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

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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.

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* {{René Cardona Estudios Churubusco films 1976 films 1970s Spanish-language films Mexican disaster films Mexican thriller films 1976 thriller films Films based on American novels Films about aviation accidents or incidents Drama films based on actual events Films based on non-fiction books Films set in Uruguay Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 Films about cannibalism Films scored by Gerald Fried Cultural depictions of Uruguayan people Cultural depictions of rugby footballers 1976 drama films 1970s English-language films 1970s Mexican films Mexican survival films Films directed by René Cardona English-language thriller films

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