''Survive!'' (

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

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directed by

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

. The film was released on January 15, 1976 in Mexico and is based on the 1973 book ''Survive!'' by

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, which is based on the story of

Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 The Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 was a chartered flight from Montevideo, Uruguay, bound for Santiago, Chile, that crashed in the Andes mountains on October 13, 1972. The accident and subsequent survival became known as the Andes flight disaste ...

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 (born Luz María Aguilar-Torres, 26 March 1935 in Ojinaga, Chihuahua, Mexico) is a Mexican actress from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. She has worked as an actress in theatre, cinema and television. One of her main roles w ...

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 or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as fi ...

as Carmelo *

Sara Guasch Sara may refer to: Arts, media and entertainment Film and television * ''Sara'' (1992 film), 1992 Iranian film by Dariush Merhjui * ''Sara'' (1997 film), 1997 Polish film starring Bogusław Linda * ''Sara'' (2010 film), 2010 Sri Lankan Sinhal ...

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 son of the same name, born in 1956, is also a successful a ...

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".

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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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