Stranded: I've Come From a Planet that Crashed on the Mountains

Stranded: I've Come From a Plane that Crashed on the Mountains tells the extraordinary story of the Uruguayan rugby team who managed to survive a plane crash in 1972. Forced to eat human flesh, they remained alive for 72 days on a 4,000 meters high glacier in the heart of the Andes. The film tells of the creation of a new society, cut off from the rest of the world, requiring the reinvention of codes and rules. No leaders – in the traditional sense of the term – but rather a collection of personalities that are gradually revealed, which harmoniously head towards a common objective: to get out of this hell together, and return to the land of the living together. An exemplary story about exceeding oneself, getting to know one another, that deals with the importance of friendship and solidarity in extreme situations. Best Documentary, IDFA, 2007; Audience Award, Miami Film Festival.

Spanish Title: Vengo de un avión que
cayó en las montañas
Original: Vengo de un avión que cayó en las montañas
English Title: Stranded: I've Come From a Planet that Crashed on the Mountains
Country of Origin: France, Uruguay
Year of Completion: 2007
Running Time: 125 min.
Format/color/BW: 35mm /color/ Black & White
Language: Spanish
Director: Gonzalo Arijon
Producer: Marc Silvera
Cinematography: César Charlone,
Pablo Hernan Zubizarreta
Editors: Claudio Hughes, Samiel Lajus, Alice Larry
Music: Florencia di Concilio
Featuring: The 16 Survivors of the Andean Cordillera

Director’s Biography
Gonzalo Arijón was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1956 but has lived in France since 1979. Over the past 15 years, he has directed numerous documentaries, including Lula’s Brazil: Managing a Dream; Far Very Far from Rome, The Dark Side of Milosevic; Rio de Janeiro--A Vertical War; and For These Eyes, which won numerous awards at international film festivals. Arijon is a childhood friend of many of the young men featured in the film.