- Source: I Am Alive: Surviving the Andes Plane Crash
I Am Alive: Surviving the Andes Plane Crash is a 2010 television documentary recounting the tragedy of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 from the perspective of survivor Nando Parrado. It is a 2-hour special with reenactments of the October 13, 1972 crash and the 72-day struggle for survival that followed, including details of the 60-kilometre (37 mi) trek out of the mountains by Parrado and fellow survivor Roberto Canessa. I Am Alive was produced by AMS Pictures and premiered on the History Channel on October 20, 2010. It was released for DVD on February 22, 2011.
Survivor interviews
Nando Parrado
Roberto Canessa
Carlitos Paez
Eduardo Strauch
Gustavo Zerbino
Cast
James Lentzsch as Nando Parrado
Benjamin Josse as Roberto Canessa
Kelly Haitz as Susy Parrado
Cindy Latch as Zenia Parrado
Vince Roberts as Carlitos Paez
Dorian Roberts as Eduardo Strauch
Everette Scott Ortiz as Gustavo Zerbino
Ben Keyworth as Marcelo Perez
Heather Child as Liliana Methol
Mark T. Lee as Javier Methol
Alfred Ramirez as Panchito Abal
Taylor Witt as Antonio Vizintin
Larry Rodriguez as Col. Julio Fernandez
Tim Wylie as Lt. Col. Dante Lagurara
Grayson Howe as Numa Turcatti
Daniel Cruz as Bobby Francois
Lico Reyes as Sergio Catalan
Reception
Critic Linda Stasi of the New York Post awarded I Am Alive four stars, calling it "without question the finest survival documentary I have ever seen on TV."
References
External links
History.com
AMS Pictures.com
Nando Parrado's website
http://www.alpineexpeditions.net/andes-survivors.html Archived 2014-03-16 at the Wayback Machine
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- I Am Alive: Surviving the Andes Plane Crash
- Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571
- Roberto Canessa
- Nando Parrado
- Gustavo Zerbino
- I Am Alive (disambiguation)
- Carlos Páez Rodríguez
- List of programs broadcast by the History Channel
- List of accidents and incidents involving airliners by location
- List of fatalities from aviation accidents
