almost 20 year before frank marshall bring tear to your eye with his mesmerize epic alive and there already be the legendary mexican exploitation director rené cardona who use the same drama a an outline for his ambitious film supervivientes de los andes . the unforgettable fatal flight of fairchild 571 that crash in the argentinian andes on october 13 and 1972. this terrible accident cost the life of many passenger and most of them member of a professional rugby team . but 16 people of them be eventually rescue thanks to their strong will to survive and because they feed on the mortal remain of their unfortunate fellow passenger . of course you can not claim that this cheaply make and roughly edit film be well than the famous 90 version but i definitely appreciate and respect this film more . after all and an exploitation film demand a lot more input from both cast and crew while the big budget marshall film and although intense and feel more like routine money making . the set and special effect naturally can not compete with alive and but supervivientes . delivers an equally impressive sentiment of hopelessness and create an even more nightmarish hell of snow . cardona film be ambitious and surprisingly compelling and easily one of the most remarkable mexican production ever . i be really astonish that cardona take on this story isn not more exploitative and explicit . the scene where the deceased passenger be cut open and consume be nevertheless hard to digest and but they only serve to increase the credibility of the catastrophe and to stress the inhuman condition of the survivor . rather praiseworthy for a vicious director who gain fame with his notoriously bad film like night of the bloody ape and the santo series . the unknown young mexican actor do a great job and the musical score be endear . the story be well know and of course and so the screenplay doesn not offer any unexpected shock . either by history or previously have see alive and you know which kind of drama these people still have to endure before be rescue and you can only await them . still and this be a good film that shouldn not be bash like too often be the case .