My father took these. He was a maniac for the camera.
That's me.
That's Felipe and Nando.
That's Alex Morales. He died instantly.
That's Antonio, captain of the team.
After 20 years, you analyze a lot.
You remember people, heroism.
"The Miracle of the Andes", that's what they called it.
Many people come up to me and say
that had they been there, they surely would have died.
But that makes no sense.
Because until you're in a situation like that...
you have no idea how you'll behave.
To be affronted by solitude without decadence,
or a single material thing to prostitute it
elevates you to a spiritual plane...
where I felt the presence of God.
Now, there's the God they taught me about at school...
and there is the God that's hidden
by what surrounds us in this civilization.
That's the God I met on the mountain.
Steward, could you get me some tea, please?
Yes, sir.
- Want some tea? - No, thanks.
That's it.
Come on, Diego! Throw it here! Over here!
Here! Hey, Juan!
Watch out!
Where did you stay in Paris, left bank, or the right?
Excuse me, please.
Paris is not for you, Canessa.
- Why not? - You're too intense for Paris.
How can I justify that to the guys?
He missed practice one day last week, and once the week before.
- I think he is all right. - He missed the plane too.
Look, I'm team captain. I'll say what's okay.
If you wanna play rugby, if you wanna play on a team,
you got to be there 100%.
- Right? - Yeah.
Okay. Everybody to the right side of the plane.
Just kidding.
Let me get in.
- Okay, one, two... - Go on.
- Mama, look. - Look at what?
The mountains. They're so beautiful. Look.
Don't make me look at the mountains, Susana.
- They look like big teeth. - Oh, don't worry.
We're gonna be on the ground in 20 minutes.
Good. Let's talk about something else.
- Have a chocolate. - Thank you.
It's clouding up a bit.
Just stay above the weather.
No problem.
What's more important to you? Rugby or girls?
Girls. You?
Girls.
But when I'm playing rugby, it's the most important thing.
Unless girls are watching?
Right.
Come on, man, switch seats. I want to see the mountains.
Don't climb on the seats, okay?
- Watch yourself. - All right.
Uruguayan 571, cleared to 10,000 ft. Thank you.
Your tea, sir. Thank you.
Turning on the seat belt sign, steward.
Get those kids to sit down back there.
We're gonna go to a little weather on our approach.
Okay.
We'll be landing soon. Everybody, please sit down.
All right, guys. Everybody, please sit down.
Do you think they hear you?
Come on now. Sit down.
See? I told you. Now sit down!
All right. Anything to calm your nerves.
What's going on?
Look what Alonso's doing.
Ladies and gentlemen,
put on your parachutes! We're jumping into the Andes!
Put that down and sit down.
- Ooh! - All right, all right.
Put that cigarette out.
Whoa!
My God!
You okay?
Nando, is everything all right?
Yes, everything's fine. It's just an air pocket.
Mom, it scared me, too.
Mother of God, no!
- Oh, shit! - Full throttle. Come on!
Come on!
What happened?
Are we supposed to fly that close to the mountains?
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with Thee...
Power! We need more power!
I can't...!
Oh, man!
It's stopped.
Jesus!
I think I'm all right. Alex?
He's dead!
- Zerbino, are you okay? - People are hurting, Antonio.
I've only been in med school six months.
- Help me out. - Okay.
Eduardo. Where's he going?
Is Canessa okay?
Yes.
- Where's Eduardo? - He went back.
- You'd better go get him. - Eduardo, come back.
Help Canessa. Help him.
Lilliana!
Lilliana.
I'm all right.
I can't breathe.
It's the altitude.
You're okay. Just relax and breathe.
- What should I do? - Look up there.
Canessa! Help Federico.
His leg is cut.
I'm fine. Help the wounded.
I saved us. I said the Hail Mary.
- We didn't expect... - Move out the way.
What should I do?
Go to the back, get some air.
Okay.
Here. Just sit here. You are okay.
I'm going to use a handkerchief to clean your nose. Okay?
Bobby! Bobby Francois!
Hey, Carlitos! Smoke?
Yeah.
Stay with me, please.
There's two dead in baggage. The Solanos.
- Please! - Stay with Felipe.
Easy, ma'am, easy.
My legs!
Yes, ma'am, I'm sorry about your legs.
- Roy, are you hurt? - I don't know.
Come on, then. Help me. Come on.
Take the other side. One, two, three!
Alberto.
Dead.
I'm not dead.
Never felt worse in my life, but I am not dead.
I- I got check on the others.
All right. Let's move this stuff.
Argh! Be careful! Both my legs are broken.
How's Nando?
I don't think so.
Maybe it's just as well. His mother's dead.
Please. Please.
- Other people are hurt. - It's okay, Felipe.
- I'll stay with you. - Thank you.
Got a minute?
What, Pablo?
It's this. Is it serious?
- Forget it. You're all right. - You think so?
Yeah, don't worry about it. You're strong as an ox.
Give a hand with this seat over here. Come on.
Here. Tie it up with this shirt, and I'll see to it later.
Water.
Mama! Mama!
I want to go home! I want to go home!
Sit her down here.
Canessa. Canessa!
You better go see the pilot.
Okay. Help me move her.
Okay, we're gonna give it one more try, Mrs. Alfonsin.
- No, don't. You'll kill me. - We've got to do it.
Let them do it, ma'am. They've got to do it.
Maybe we shouldn't.
One, two, three, pull!
Stop! Stop! Stop!
We're going to kill her!
I gotta stop. Can't do this.
- My arms... - This is horrible!
- All right! - Don't touch it!
Let's get these loose chairs out,
make some room in here.
Watch his leg.
Water. Water.
Hand me some snow.
Here.
Where's the radio? We should call Santiago.
We passed Curico. We passed Curico.
I found the radio.
My bag.
How do we call Santiago?
Eleven... 300.
I got the dial. 11, 300. Okay.
It's dead. There's no power at all.
My bag.
He wants his bag.
There isn't much in the floor. I don't see his bag.
- We're looking. What's in it? - My...
My...
My gun. My gun.
No, my friend, we can't be a part of that.
Put this up on that side.
My hands are freezing!
Well, it's too late.
The rescuers will never see us today.
- I guess we'll spend the night. - Rescuers?
How the hell they're gonna find us?
Don't worry, they will find us.
The temperature will drop when it gets dark.
- Maybe 30, 40 degrees. - Don't worry.
We'll deal with that. Don't worry.
I'm cold.
These covers come off. We can use them as blankets.
That's a good idea.
Everybody, let's unzip these covers off the sits,
to use as blankets.
Pablo. How's your stomach? Good. Fine.
Good.
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
- Who's that? - Canessa. Come on!
I thought it was just a coat,
but when I went to take it, there he was.
- Are you hurt? - Identify yourself!
Identify yourself!
My name is Roberto Canessa. I'm a medical student.
I'm a member of the rugby team that chartered this plane.
You're a member of the flight crew, aren't you?
Aren't you?
Yes. I'm the mechanic.
Do you know how to fix radios?
No.
You took this coat off a girl,
- didn't you? - No!
You're right. This is Anna Parrado's coat.
Go put it back on her.
Take it off her again, I'll kill you.
Excuse me.
- How you doing? - I'm going to bed.
That way?
Come on, Eduardo. He bumped his head.
Hey, Roberto?
Want some wine?
Thanks.
Where'd you get wine?
Hugo found a shitload of bottles in this cargo.
He thinks it was the pilot's.
Well, it would explain how he flew his plane.
We're completely screwed.
I don't know.
Get back there and help the others.
We're gonna be fine.
Who are you trying to convince, Antonio?
I had no premonition.
So much for ESP.
That was a very good idea about the seat covers.
Thank you.
Have some wine.
Thanks.
Got all the covers.
Put them inside. Near the front.
I'm dying!
Oh, my sweet God in Heaven, the pain!
I'm in so much pain.
It must be terrible.
Calm yourself. God will take care of you.
My legs!
God forgive you all for not helping me!
- I'm in agony! - Shut up!
Shut up, you stupid cow, or I'll punch your face in!
I swear to God, I will. Shut up.
God, it's cold! It's too cold!
Antonio!
It's too cold. We're going to freeze.
Roy.
Roy! Come on, Roy.
We've got to stuff up this hole.
Come on, or we'll freeze to death!
- With what? - With the luggage and stuff.
- Come on. Come on! - I'm so cold, Antonio.
- Grab a suitcase. - What are you doing?
- Come on. You too, Rafael. - I'm freezing!
We've got to stuff up this hole.
Here, help me with this seat, Rafael.
- We put it on the bottom... - Okay.
...with the suitcases. Give me a hand.
Carlitos?
Are you awake?
Are you serious?
- Know what I think? - What?
I think Nando's not so bad.
I don't know.
Let's put him between us so we keep him warm.
Be careful with his head. Move him over.
Blanket.
Canessa, Hugo's trying to revive Nando.
I'm not doing anything else to help anybody.
I've done enough!
I hate these idiots. If you don't shut up,
I'll hate you too! Leave me alone.
I feel sick to my stomach.
Here. Try and sleep, Javier.
It's just altitude sickness. Don't be scared.
Thanks.
Well, we have cigarettes.
Yeah.
How will they find us?
They have to know about where we went down.
Don't worry, they'll find us.
- What happened? - You knocked your head.
- We crashed? - Yeah.
Unbelievable.
He's dead. Help me move him out.
- Roberto. - He's dead?
- Roberto. - Yeah.
Help move him to the back.
We have to keep these out of the cabin.
Come on, Carlitos, help me.
How are you, Susana?
My feet hurt.
Anybody with a broken arm or leg
should go and lay it in the snow.
It'll help the swelling go down.
They've gotten cold.
How's that?
Thank you.
What's the story in here?
They're both dead.
You're the mechanic, right?
- Do you have any signal flares? - No.
Emergency supplies?
No. Nothing like that.
- What's wrong with him? - What's wrong with you?
What about the radio?
Can it be made to work?
God! Not without batteries!
Well, are there batteries or not?
Huh?
The batteries are in the tail, and the tail's gone!
Forget him, he's crazy.
Anyway, it doesn't really matter about the radio.
It would be nice, but they'll find us
- with or without a radio. - Are you sure?
I haven't a doubt in my mind.
Who's that?
The woman who was screaming all night, Mrs. Alfonsin.
Don't tell me it's her.
What's the matter?
I yelled at her, told her to shut up.
We all wanted to, Carlitos.
But I did. Now, she's dead.
I'm so ashamed.
God forgive me!
Take it easy.
Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done,
on Earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our trespasses
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Amen.
Chocolate-covered peanuts, small chocolate bars,
four bottles of wine,
half bottle of run and nine crackers.
How many of us are there?
Twenty-seven.
- We're gonna starve. - Look...
this weather can't last. There'll probably be helicopters
coming over those mountains this afternoon.
But we'll be careful and ration what we have.
I like a big lunch.
One capful of wine, one square of chocolate each.
I prefer a big lunch to a big dinner.
Come on. Form a line.
Careful.
Thank you, Antonio for the teeny chocolate piece.
You're welcome.
Fill this. It's not for me.
- And who's it for? - Nando.
- He's unconscious. - He still gets a share.
Give it to him.
The king is generous today.
Lift up his head.
He looks better.
Yeah. He looks fabulous.
Thank God we have cigarettes.
Thousands of cigarettes.
I could smoke till my brain dries up, you know?
What's that?
It's an airplane!
It's the search party!
If we can't see them, they can't see us.
What is that you're humming?
"The Look of Love. "
How beautiful.
I'm thinking about our children.
Yeah.
Me too. Home.
There's one of these inside the back of each chair.
- Uh-huh. - Snow.
It'll melt and make water.
You're a genius, Peter.
This is terrific. Make more of these.
I'll mark off a big square of snow
so nobody will piss on it. Daniel, come help me.
Antonio's got the makings of a dictator, right?
No comment.
- Coche? - Yeah?
Play "Flight of the Bumble Bee. "
Fuck you.
To be fair to this dilemma, this is a beautiful spot.
Not a tree, not a bird, not a blade of grass.
Yeah, paradise.
You guys could help. There's things to do here.
Stuff it, Roy!
I'll pay for the pizza if you go and get it.
How are you doing?
Let me sleep.
Canessa
What?
Canessa, look at Nando.
I think he's all right. I think he's all right.
- I think he's waking up. - Nando?
Nando.
See? I told you.
Don't grind your teeth, you'll ruin your smile.
Nando.
Focus on me. Come on. Focus on me. Focus on me.
Roberto Canessa.
- He knows you. - Yeah.
What happened?
We crashed.
My mother?
She's dead.
No, no, no, Nando. Listen! Forget your mother!
Your sister's alive. Susana's alive.
She needs you 'cause she's hurt. She needs you
- to take care of her. - Where is she?
You need to rest first. You've being unconscious.
Where is she? Where is she?
Susana!
- Susana! - Nan...
Nando?
Susana?
I'm here now.
Hey!
There's a plane! Come on!
Can they see us? Can they see us?
- Of course they can! - Hey!
- Here we are! - Beautiful!
Hey!
He dipped his wings! He dipped his wings!
Yeah! He dipped his wings!
The wings, they dipped! I saw it!
- You saw it too? - I saw it!
I knew they would find us! I knew it!
We're saved!
We're going home!
- Pizza for everybody! - Yes!
We're going home, Federico! We're going home.
Thank God!
- How are you guys doing? - Fine.
- Good. - Drink some of this.
Thank.
What about the rationing?
We've been seen. Drink.
Yeah.
Antonio's asleep.
Look at Roy. He's asleep too.
He even sleeps to Antonio's beat.
He's like his dog.
Carlitos, pass the piss pot.
How will they save us?
Helicopters.
A plane. A big plane.
There has to be helicopters, Pedro.
- There's no place to land. - We landed.
Yeah, right! We landed like that.
What is that?
Chocolate.
Go on. It's only got to last until tomorrow.
He's right. Give me a piece.
Do you think we should be doing that?
Why not? It's over.
The helicopters are coming in the morning.
We should wait till we see the helicopters.
Oh...
- How are you feeling? - Not bad. Time to eat?
Yeah.
- Where are they? - They're coming.
It's gonna be dark soon.
What's this? What the hell is this?!
What's the matter?
Am I losing my mind? I must be losing my mind.
Who has been in this box?
What pig has been in this box?
Don't you know that you're playing with our lives?
There's virtually nothing left!
Why didn't you take a knife
and slit our throats while we slept?
Who was it?
It was me.
I can't believe it!
I thought they were picking us up.
And they will! But it could be a land rescue!
They may have to come to these mountains on foot!
It could take days, a week!
We have nothing to eat! We're trapped!
I know, Antonio, but I thought they were coming this morning.
Who are you to dare with my life? Huh?
Who are you against the rest of us?
It wasn't just him, Antonio. I stole food too.
- Me, too. - I drank wine.
- I ate chocolate. - Me too.
Everybody took some, Antonio,
except for maybe Javier and Lilliana.
The only reason I didn't is because I'm nauseous.
Not to me!
Am I the leader of this group?
I don't know. Are you?
I'm the captain of the team.
Is this still a team,
or a bunch of cut-throats now after each other?
Answer me!
Shall we take a vote?
We don't need to. You're leader.
Answer me this, Antonio.
If they saw us, even if it is a land rescue,
why haven't they dropped any supplies?
They could have done that.
They would have done that by now.
Uh, I have an idea to build
two hammocks for Federico and Alberto.
It would be better for their legs.
- You gonna help me, Zerbino? - Sure.
I'll help too.
I saw some poles and straps. I'm sure we can do it.
It's been five days. This is the fifth day.
I'm hungry.
- Lift it up. - Okay.
Just like new. Okay, we need two more belts.
Hey, look! It's a radio!
I wish it were a transmitter.
Does it work?
I hear static.
You'd better get it to Antonio right away
- before he starts yelling. - Okay.
Will we get this done before dark or what?
Sure.
I can hear something. We'll have to make an aerial.
Where are the planes? Where are the planes?
- How is she? - I don't know. She's asleep.
And how are you, Nando?
Me? Fine. Don't worry.
No helicopters yet.
She's dying.
You can't know that.
And when she's dead,
I'm gonna climb out of these goddamned mountains,
back to my father, back to my room in my house.
How you're gonna do that?
- You'll freeze to death. - Not if I wear enough clothes.
You'd starve to death. You can't climb a mountain
on a little piece of chocolate and a sip of wine.
Then I'll cut some meat off the pilots.
After all, they got us into this mess.
How you doing?
Okay. You?
I'm better. At least I'm off the floor.
- Right. - How's your leg?
I don't know.
Mine are bad.
It'll be okay.
- Nando. - Ah, thanks.
Have you looked at Alberto's legs?
Yeah.
Alberto's legs are much worse than mine.
Alberto and you both have problems.
Let me tell you something, Roberto.
My name is Federico Aranda and I will return.
Okay.
Now, Alberto's in much worse shape than me.
We've got to keep an eye on Alberto.
Okay. Okay, Federico.
Shut up! Shut up! Don't talk that way!
- All I said was Antonio... - Don't say it again.
- What's happening? - Antonio heard on the radio
- that no planes have seen us. - Yet.
- It looks bad. - Shut up, Rafael!
We're gonna have to climb. Maybe we can find the tail.
The batteries are in the tail.
We can work the transmitter, call for help.
We've got to do something.
We're going to starve. Tomorrow, we climb.
How much further is it?
Come on!
- I can't! - I'm dying for a breath.
Come on. Let's take one more push.
Let's do it! That's it.
Hold on!
Come on, grab my feet. Hold on to them!
We got you!
Hold on, Canessal
Pull me up! Pull me up!
That was terrible.
I could use some oxygen.
Yeah. Me, too.
We're gonna have to go back.
This is harder than I thought. I'm so weak.
- Know what Nando said? - What?
He said if he gets too weak, he'll eat one of the pilots.
You know, for crashing the plane.
We better get back.
When the sun drops, we'll freeze.
Curico.
Pilot said we'd just passed it. There it is, well into Chile.
Where did you find the map?
I found it.
He's made a science of it.
This valley opens only to the east.
It leads deeper into the mountains.
The way out is to the west.
To the west is Chile.
Over these mountains are the green valleys of Chile.
- We can forget that. - Alberto has a map.
It'll take more than a map to get out of here.
We've just tried to climb a little hill,
and it kicked our asses.
Who'll climb one of those mountains, Superman?
At this altitude, with no food, we're weak as kittens.
I'll tell you right now.
Either we're saved or we're dead.
The time has come. No more bullshit.
We've got to pray, man. Let's say the rosary.
I'm not saying the rosary, Carlitos. I'm an agnostic.
Don't say it, then. See if God saves you.
Anybody else want to roll the dice that way, fine!
- Hail Mary, full of grace... - The Lord is with Thee.
Blessed art thou amongst women
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, mother of God,
pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.
I'm not God, you know? I can't save you.
I can't be responsible.
I tried because I'm captain, but who could do this?
Who has the strength? Who has the strength?
Hey, don't be a fool. That's right, you're not God.
Don't take so much on and you won't feel so bad, Antonio.
Everybody knows you've done plenty to keep us together.
I can't help it. I think of my mother.
I think about my children. It's the same for me.
And you'll see them again.
I know [I will. I know I will.
Susana's dead.
My sister's dead.
I'm sorry, Nando.
I'll keep her by me tonight, and tomorrow I'll take her out.
She won't need her coat.
I can't believe it, Roy.
I can't believe it.
They've called off the search. They've given up.
They think we're dead.
I'll kill you! I'll kill you! You promised! You promised me!
What's going on?
I heard on the radio. They called off the search.
Get up. Better go tell the others.
I can't. It'll kill everybody's hope.
What's so great about hope?
Hey, Daniel! Get everybody together.
All right, all right. Is everybody here?
Yeah, we're all here.
Okay. Listen, I got something to tell you.
Good news, they called off the search.
How is that good news?
‘Cause it means we're going to get out of here on our own.
We're gonna save ourselves.
Alberto, Chile's to the west, right?
That's right.
He's crazy!
It won't work. When we try to climb, we had no strength.
It's true.
That's 'cause you had no food.
If the search's been called off, then we're on our own
to save our lives, and we've got to eat.
Eat what?
No.
The dead?
No.
He means we should eat the dead.
That's right.
We should eat the dead.
It's what we've got to face.
Oh, no. Nando!
Nando's right.
- What? - I can't believe
what I'm hearing. You too, Roberto?
You're talking about eating people!
I'm talking about eating meat so we don't die.
- I couldn't do it. I couldn't! - It's disgusting.
It's disgusting, so what?
If I had a wound rotting and needed to be washed out
wouldn't you do it, even if it was disgusting,
- because it needed to be done? - I would.
But I wouldn't eat you.
- Shut up! - Sorry.
Do you believe we have a soul,
and when we die, it leaves our body?
I don't know. I'm not a priest!
Okay.
I don't want to talk about it.
Neither do I, but we have to. We're starving and trapped.
If the soul leaves when we die, then the body is a carcass.
This is the beginning of the end.
What's out there in the snow Is just meat, Antonio.
Food.
I won't do it. I'd rather die.
I believe in God, and I fear to have Him judge me
if I do a thing like that.
He put us here.
Maybe he did, as a test, to see what we'd do,
to see if we'd remain civilized.
I don't think God cares
- whether we're civilized... - How the hell do you know?
Let Tintin speak. He never says anything.
I always thought God wants us to follow our hearts,
use our reason, struggle to live.
- At any price? - No.
We shouldn't murder innocents to live.
What about our innocence?
What'll become our innocence if we survive as cannibals?
I'm sorry, but I can't do it.
I'm with you.
I don't think I could do it.
How could we go back to our families?
You could go back alive. I think they'd prefer that.
Roberto, are you ready to go out there,
and cut flesh from a human body and eat it?
None of us can decide a thing like this.
We're alone here.
We could be on the moon, Jesus Christ.
There must've been situations like this all the way back,
the first people.
I don't know.
There's nothing left for us to do but pray.
So?
They're going to pray. We'll decide in the morning.
What have we done that God now asks us
to eat the bodies of our dead friends?
What you think they would've thought?
I don't know.
I can't sleep.
Hey, don't waste the battery.
I know that if I died...
if my dead body could help you stay alive...
I'd want you to use it.
In fact, If I do die and you don't eat me,
I'll come back from wherever I am and kick your ass!
That's a good one.
Take my hand and pledge with me.
Whoever dies, agrees...
"Use my body as food. "
All right.
I pledge...
- I agree. - Me, too.
- I'm in. - Me, too.
- Carlos? - I'm thinking.
Antonio?
Nando?
Yeah.
Can you just promise, if you eat me,
that you clean your plates?
God bless you all.
Pablo!
- Pablo. - Yah?
- How's your stomach? - Oh, it's fine.
Lift your shirt. Let me see.
- Looks great. - Told you.
You should be dead, you know.
So what do you think, Tintin?
I think we should eat.
If we do this, we'll never be the same again.
It's like Communion. From their death, we live.
People will understand.
This should be good for the cutting.
All right. Give me that.
It's very difficult to cut.
The meat's almost frozen. I'm going to eat this piece.
Somebody take this.
Someone take this and eat it. Come on!
I tell you one thing.
If I have meat in my belly, I intend to get something done.
Where were you?
You didn't take from my sister, did you?
No.
No. It wasn't a woman. I don't know who it was.
How are the others eating?
- One by one. - Good.
I'll do what I can, Roberto. I'm strong when I'm strong.
When I'm not, it's your turn.
God, she was so beautiful.
Son of a bitch! They went without me?
You can't go till you eat, anyway.
They're gonna look for the tail.
The batteries! With them, you can work a transmitter.
Can't see them anymore.
Look at that!
Tonight, we pray for the climbers,
that they come back to us.
So you pray too, Fito.
Not me. I told you, I'm an agnostic.
Fito.
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with Thee.
Blessed art thou amongst women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb...
Eat this. Eat it!
You think they're okay?
No. The way they were dressed...
Had to be 35, 40 below last night.
They're dead.
It's the sun.
No, we're dreaming.
- What...? - What?
What?
It's the sun. Thank God!
Look! It's a seat from the plane!
It's heavy. Help me!
Ready? Go!
He must've burned.
- What are you doing? - I'm taking his wallet
and whatever he has for his mother.
Hey.
There's more over here.
This accounts for those that are still missing.
Altogether three.
My feet are starting to freeze again.
We should go back.
Do you want to try something?
Whoo!
Why does it smell so bad even after you clean it?
It's the infection. I'll clean it again tonight.
Don't look so downhearted, Roberto.
Take a lesson from Alberto. Nothing stops him.
I have abandoned the Church of Rome
in favor of Utopia.
Good for you, Alberto.
And for my part, my name is Federico Aranda
and I will return.
How is Federico?
He has gangrene, I think. I know Alberto does.
Canessa. Canessa!
Look at this! Look at this!
- Watch out! - They're flying.
Whoo!
What the hell! Watch out!
- Watch out! - To freedom!
Watch out!
They didn't die, Roberto. Anything is possible.
Whoo-hoo!
There was a piece of the wing.
So the tail must be up there somewhere.
Here's the plan I propose.
We pick a team to go after the tail.
- I'll go. - Me, too.
We feed the team the biggest rations,
give them the warmest clothes.
And then in, I don't know, a week,
we go up there, we find the tail,
get the batteries, bring them back, crank up the transmitter.
- It gets cold up there. - I couldn't do it again.
Yeah. Me neither.
I need more money.
Here.
I wish we could have a fire every night,
and that someone would go for pizza.
I'll pay if you go.
No, I insist. I'll pay, you go.
I feel God has taken care of us.
Don't you feel it? A sense of fate?
I feel a sense of fate.
Hi.
I wanted you all to know...
if I die, you have my permission.
You can eat me.
If anybody could hear this!
Sit down, Antonio.
Coche, it's too bad you didn't play the cello!
Javier?
- What? - I've decided something.
What's that, sweetie?
I want to have another baby.
This experience, it's just...
It's made me feel this miracle of life so deeply.
It's not that, my dear. It's just that
you're not eating.
If you don't eat, how will you live to have another baby?
You're right.
I'll eat some. I'll do it.
- I'll eat tomorrow. - Baby.
Yeah. I'll eat tomorrow.
God bless you.
Where is everyone?
I don't know.
Shine the light over here.
Avalanche!
Eduardo! Eduardo!
Get out! Get out!
I can't see! I can't see!
- You all right? - Yeah.
- Who is it? - Zerbino.
Help!
Antonio.
Here's somebody! Here's somebody!
Go, go, go!
Pablo!
Lilliana!
Hold on!
I'll get...
Lilliana! Help me!
For God's sake, help me get my wife!
Lilliana!
Please don't take her from me now!
He's breathing. Nando!
Keep digging. God, please! Nando!
Get him out!
Pull! Pull him out!
Eight are dead. Eight of us are dead.
We can't go out. There's a blizzard.
Let me see.
Roberto...
listen, today is Rafael's birthday.
So?
We've got to observe his birthday.
Make a wish.
A wish?
I just wish this was over.
- It's still snowing. - It's a blizzard.
Roberto, you're not gonna believe this.
What?
Today is my birthday.
I love you all so much.
And my wish... My wish...
Tonight, we say the rosary for the living
and for life itself.
That we have survived a plane crash,
starvation and an avalanche.
And tonight, Fito, no more kidding.
You've got to pray the rosary with us.
I'm not saying no rosary, Carlitos. I'm an agnostic.
What's that?
My God, it's another avalanche!
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with Thee.
Blessed art thou amongst women
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Alberto.
Light.
Canessa. Zerbino.
Good morning, Carlitos.
Good morning, my friends. Do you know what today is?
No. What?
Today is my father's birthday.
My father is an artist,
a painter, and a bit of a madman.
And now in my heart, with the rise of the sun,
I do believe I'll see him again.
- Do you feel it? - What?
God.
God is everywhere today.
Help. Over here! I'm here!
This is where the dead were. Gone under the snow now.
It's about the closest they'll get to a burial.
- I'm worried about Eduardo. - Why?
He's losing his spirit.
When are we going?
Fifteenth.
The fifteenth passed by.
The fifteenth of next month.
That's too long.
Winter's ending. The nights will get shorter.
It will get warmer. We'll have a chance.
Alberto...
why are you crying?
Because I am so close to God.
Shhhh. It's okay.
So beautiful.
It's beautiful.
Wake up, please.
Wake up, everyone.
My name is Federico Aranda, and I have to tell you
that Alberto Antuna, a brave boy, is dead.
He was 21 years old.
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord.
Let perpetual light shine upon them.
May they rest in peace. Amen.
This should be enough to eat.
We should wait a few more days.
- Why? - Because it'll be warmer.
I waited until the 15th.
On the 15th, you said the weather was no good.
On the 16th, you said the weather was no good.
I've been waiting on you for four weeks, Roberto.
Put your pack on, this is it.
All right.
How are you doing, Federico?
Very well, Nando. Good luck on your journey.
Thank you. They tell me you won't eat, Javier.
Yeah.
It's up to you if you want to get out of here.
Perhaps.
Forget your wife! Forget her! Remember your living children!
Will you eat?
I'll eat. I'll eat.
Good.
Stay well, Federico. Pray for me.
I will.
When we find the tail, we'll come back with the batteries.
And if you don't?
If we don't find the tail, we'll keep going.
Going where? Through the mountains?
We'll find the tail.
Roy, you got the radio or the panel yet?
Just about. There's a lot of wires.
We'll figure it out.
All right, Eduardo, see these?
Little shoes.
Yeah, little red shoes. Take this one.
When these are a pair again, you're going to be going home.
All right?
Okay.
All right. Let's do it!
Where'd you learn about transmitters?
I didn't. I helped my cousins put together their stereos.
Now I'm the radio man.
Our lives depend on this radio, Roy.
Who asked you? Don't upset me! I'm emotional as it is.
Come on. Leave him alone.
Let's go.
Hey!
Wait till you see... You're not gonna believe it!
Chocolate!
Sweaters!
Clean underwear!
A comic book I haven't read!
Toothpaste!
Delicious!
This is a pretty good story.
Maybe we should just keep walking tomorrow.
- What are you talking about? - We found the batteries.
Bring them back, transmit an SOS. That's it.
Unbelievable. All this time, the tail was a three-hour walk.
Maybe we should just walk to Chile.
What are you talking about? You're talking shit.
We don't have the equipment to climb these mountains.
We would die.
No, we bring the batteries back and transmit an SOS. That's it.
One, two, three...
- That isn't going to work. - I don't know.
Maybe we should just keep walking.
I'm not throwing my life away
walking into the mountains. It's a stupid...
All right. This is what we'll do.
We'll get radio here, bring it back up here.
We can't hook up a radio.
We'll bring Roy.
I don't want to go.
We don't know anything about radios.
I don't either! All these wires, I don't know what they are for.
I just helped my cousins with their stereo!
We had a booklet.
You're going!
You take it. You're smarter than me!
I don't wanna go up in the snow! I don't wanna go!
How much further is it? We've been walking a long time!
I don't have any strength, you know?
I feel sick and weak.
I wish he'd shut up.
This was your idea.
- Careful! - Sorry.
You'll burn something up. Give me this.
It'll be dark soon.
I'm going to wrap this stuff around my legs.
I wanna be warm tonight.
Goddamn it!
- That was youl! - Why don't you two give that up?
Huh? We'll make a fire.
- Tintin. - Yeah?
Let's make a fire.
This stuff worked good. I feel snug as a bug.
- What you think we should do? - Fix the radio.
- But if we can't fix the radio? - I don't think it's gonna work.
When it does work, Roy, it won't be because of you!
- I never said I could fix... - But if it doesn't work,
what you think we should do? Huh, Tintin?
I don't know. Whatever you two decide.
Mister Switzerland!
Well, I think that if the radio doesn't work, we...
I'm not climbing those mountains!
Then I'll go without you.
You'll die. You'll freeze to death.
No, I won't. Not if we make a sleeping bag out of this stuff.
There's enough stuff here to make a bag.
Nando! Nando!
Look at this! Look.
Oh, wow!
- Look at that cake. - Ah...
Are we going the right way?
I think so.
Come on!
I can't!
You know you can!
Just leave mel!
Nando, we got to keep going!
We get caught in this, the sun goes down, we're dead.
- Go ahead! - What about Roy?
You go ahead with Tintin. Don't look back.
I'll get Roy to the plane!
I told you winter wasn't over!
- Leave me! - Come on!
- I can't walk!
I can't carry you. You'll kill us both!
I can't!
What do you mean you can't, huh? You piece of shit!
What you mean you can't?
You can't tell me you can't do it!
Get up and walk ten steps.
- Get up and walk ten steps! - All right!
It's them!
- Did the radio work? - No.
Where's Nando?
I don't know.
Nando
Come on! Come on!
Carlitos, here!
Thanks.
Didn't you see him? Federico's dead!
No good.
- What do you mean no good? - No good.
Canessa.
Try to sleep.
He's bad.
What's the matter with him?
Are you surprised? How long can people live like this?
Carlitos says the sleeping bag's ready.
It's not ready.
Yes. It's time to go. It's time to make this trip.
We got caught in that storm. We almost died.
I told you winter's not over! Listen to me, Nando.
You got the will, I give you that.
But I have the brains. I say we wait.
- Until when? - The sleeping bag's ready.
- The sleeping bag is ready! - It's not ready!
Hey.
Rafael's dead.
It's time to go, Roberto. It's time.
Before we turn into animals.
All right.
Nando.
I still got the shoe!
I still got mine.
God be with you. You'll be okay.
Thanks.
Wait! Wait!
Carlitos, let them go.
I forgot to tell you. I had a dream last night,
a tremendous premonition.
I saw green fields and flowers. I could smell the grass.
Your expedition will succeed.
Don't forget the pizza!
Here you go.
That looks like a good place to camp, right up there.
I think this is the top.
Maybe this leads somewhere.
Be careful.
Help, please!
Nando! Nando!
You'll fall too!
Hang on, Roberto! Give me the strap!
I'll get you. Now hold on!
- Nando! - Hold on!
You got me?
Hold on!
I got you.
Hurry!
- Hurry! - I got you, I got youl!
- You got me? - Yes.
Hurry up!
Hold on!
Now, Tintin! Get me up!
Grab hold of me. Pull yourself! Go over me!
So what do you think? You want to try the other way?
Huh?
You ready, Roberto?
You see that line?
- That's a road. - I can't see anything.
Do you see it, Tintin?
I see a line. I couldn't say if it was a road.
I think we should go back.
Go back?
Yeah. This mountain's too high.
What do we do if we go back?
Go to the road.
It might be a road, it might not.
I've the best eyes. That's a road.
I'm going back.
I'm going on.
What are you going to do, Tintin?
I don't know.
How about this? We leave our stuff here with you,
we go to the top and see.
Will you wait for us, Roberto?
All right.
Then I'm going back.
I'm going to see a valley, a river.
I'm going to see green trees and hills.
Tintin! Tintin!
Go back and get Canessa.
Tell him it's gonna be all right.
Tell him to come up and see for himself.
Canessa! Canessa!
Nando's at the top.
Did you get there?
No, but he says it's marvelous.
I have to rest.
Nando?
Mountains! Nothing but mountains.
We've had it!
We've completely had it!
No, we haven't.
Through these mountains, somewhere,
there's a green valley.
See these mountains over here? There's no snow on them.
They must be 50 miles away.
You think you can walk 50 miles?
If we have to, we will.
- I can't. - Yes, you can.
I can't.
I'm not as strong as you.
You know what it is
that we've lived this long, the way we have? 70 days?
That we climbed this mountain? You know what it is?
It's impossible. It's impossible, and we did it.
I know.
I'm proud to be a man on a day like this, alive!
That I lived to see it.
And see it in such a place, take it in!
I love you, man! Look!
It's magnificent.
It's God.
It'll carry us over every stone, I swear!
I swear to you.
All right. We'll get Tintin, send him back to the plane.
We'll take his extra food.
You see? You see where the sun's going to set?
That way's west.
And to the west are the green valleys of Chile.
We're gonna die, you know?
Maybe.
But if we die, we're gonna die walking.
Good luck!
Hey!
We're going home!
And so we were saved.
Nando and Canessa breached the Andes and we were saved.
Later, a group went back and buried the bodies.
They built a rough stone altar by the grave,
and over it, they placed an iron cross.
There's nothing more I can tell you.
We were brought together by a grand experience.