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Netflix sets release date for documentary series on the Andes tragedy

From Cooperativa · () Spanish

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  • Netflix will release Beyond Society, a three-part documentary about the 1972 Andes plane crash, on December 18.
  • The series brings together previously unpublished testimonies from survivors and victims’ families.
  • Much of the production takes place at the crash site, with cast members from the 2024 film adaptation joining the journey.

Netflix will premiere Beyond Society on December 18, returning to one of the Andes’ most enduring tragedies through the voices of those who lived it and those who lost family members.

Created by Spanish filmmaker Juan Antonio Bayona and directed by Carlos Torres, the three-part documentary revisits the crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 on October 13, 1972, in Argentina’s Andes mountains. It follows the fifty years that came after the disaster.

The series brings together, for the first time, previously unpublished testimonies from survivors and relatives of the victims who never returned from the crash. Much of the story unfolds at the site itself.

The production also brings back a large part of the cast from Bayona’s 2024 film adaptation, The Society of the Snow. Netflix described the decision as creating “a unique encounter between reality and fiction” when it released the first trailer.

a unique encounter between reality and fiction

· NetflixThe platform used the phrase to describe bringing the film’s cast to the crash site for the documentary.
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