STRANDED: Q & A with director GONZALO ARIJON and plane crash survivor/film subject ADOLFO "FITO" STRAUCH (Recorded October 23, 2008)

Summary: STRANDED: In 1972, a plane filled with cheerful, well-to-do young men, leaving Uruguay for a rugby game in Chile, crashed in a remote part of the Andes. STRANDED recreates the extraordinary experience of the 29 who initially survived the crash, followed by two months of cold, hunger and despair. Now, decades later, the men who found their way out of this frozen hell tell their story to documentarian (and childhood friend) Gonzalo Arijon in a film that eschews both sensationalism and sentimentality. These events were the subject of the 1973 worldwide best-seller, Alive, as well as a feature film, but STRANDED is the definitive, haunting version of this profoundly moving drama. Winner of the Grand Prize at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). This podcast is the Q & A with director GONZALO ARIJON and plane crash survivor/film subject ADOLFO "FITO" STRAUCH, recorded October 23, 2008 during their appearance at a screening of the film at Film Forum.