Alive
Alive is a 1993 American biographical survival drama film based on Piers Paul Read's 1974 book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, which details a Uruguayan rugby team's crash aboard Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 into the Andes mountains on October 13, 1972.
Plot
The film opens with a group of photographs of the Stella Maris College's Old Christians Rugby Team. Carlitos Páez points out several members of the team and reflects on the accident in a brief monologue.
More details
author | John Patrick Shanley |
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contentLocation | Uruguay |
director | Frank Marshall |
editor | Michael Kahn William Goldenberg |
events | aviation aviation accident |
genre | drama |
keywords | air force andes antonio tintin vizintin antonio vizintin bury carlitos páez eat end expect flight attendant gap gustavo zerbino head injury injured learn medical student nothing old christians club old christians rugby team ration rescue roberto canessa roy harley starve stella maris college uruguayan air force flight 571 |
musicBy | James Newton Howard |
producer | Kathleen Kennedy Robert Watts |
productionCompany | Paramount Pictures The Kennedy/Marshall Company Touchstone Pictures |
publisher | Buena Vista Pictures |
theme | biographical drama death disaster docudrama survival |