They crashed in the mountains and turned to cannibalism. He focuses on the humanity
In October 1972, a plane carrying members of a rugby team from Uruguay, among others, crashed in the Andes.
A group of survivors lived through the plane crash, only to face the frigid cold and snow of the mountains, avalanches and, most famously, a lack of food.
As they fought for their lives for more than two months, they fed themselves by cannibalizing the bodies of those who had already died.
This story of the crash and its aftermath has been told before, but in the hands of director Juan Antonio Bayona, who based his film Society of the Snow on the book of the same name, we see a uniquely human side of the survivors.
Bayona spoke with host Scott Detrow about trying to capture the survivors' spirits and the "very transcendental act" of how they lived.
