Roberto Canessa a consacré les deux tiers de sa vie à raconter comment il a affronté des températures négatives, survécu à deux avalanches, escaladé les Andes et eu recours à la consommation de chair humaine pour survivre au terrible accident d'avion qui a bouleversé son existence à l'âge de 19 ans.
Mais pour cet Uruguayen, cette tragédie anthropophage qui a fasciné le monde vaut la peine d'être racontée de nouveau.
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00:00 Roberto Canessa devoted two-thirds of his life to telling how he faced negative temperatures,
00:05 survived two avalanches, climbed the Andes and used human flesh to survive the terrible plane crash that ruined his life at the age of 19.
00:15 But for this Uruguayan, this anthropophagic tragedy that fascinated the world is worth telling again.
00:22 With "The Circle of Snows", it lands on Netflix on January 4.
00:27 The film was also released in some cinemas around the world in December.
00:32 "In life, we all have our mountain chain to climb," recalls AFP Mr. Canessa.
00:38 "And there are a lot of people who are climbing their mountains right now.
00:42 We have to tell them not to be discouraged, to continue."
00:46 Directed by the Spanish Juan Antonio Bayona, "Jurassic World", "Fallen Kingdom", "The Impossible",
00:53 the film traces the odyssey of young players of a team of Uruguayan amateur rugby players
00:58 whose plane crashed in the Andes mountains in 1972 as they were heading to Chile.
01:04 The title and the screenplay are taken from the eponymous book by the Uruguayan Pablo Vierci,
01:08 which collects the testimonies of the members of the "Circle of Snows".
01:12 For Mr. Canessa, this name symbolizes the pact that emerged from the challenge to which the team was subjected
01:18 when civilized society left you aside.
01:21 "After the crash, the survivors were first convinced that the rescuers would come to the rescue,"
01:26 explains Lexwick Beeman, who has become a cardiologist.
01:30 "But the days have gone by without a savior on the horizon.
01:33 You have to manage to get water, you have to eat the dead because otherwise you will die.
01:39 The dead are there, next to you," he says.
01:43 "You start to see the death of another person, not with sadness for her, but with sadness for you,
01:49 because you are on the waiting list.
01:52 Something was missing."
01:54 On October 13, 1972, a plane with 45 people on board, amateur rugby players, a few relatives and the crew
02:02 crashed in the Andes on a snowy platform at more than 3,500 meters above sea level in Argentine territory.
02:09 Twelve died in the crash and 17 will succumb later due to injuries, extreme cold or avalanches.
02:16 The survival calvary, forced to eat their teammates, will last a total of 72 days.
02:23 "What happened to us in the Andes is absurd," says Mr. Canessa, one of the 16 survivors.
02:29 He was the one who saved his comrades thanks to a heroic team in the mountains with his friend Fernando Parado
02:36 to reach Chile, when the search had been abandoned.
02:40 This upsetting story has already been the subject of books and feature films,
02:44 notably with the American film "The Survivors" (1993) by Frank Marshall with Ethan Hawke.
02:51 A story that focuses mainly on the incredible exploit of the survivors.
02:56 But for Mr. Bayona, who wanted to tell this story in his mother tongue, something was missing.
03:02 The Spanish director wanted to give the possibility to express oneself to those who had not returned.
03:08 "This scriptwriting part made sense in the film," he adds.
03:13 "The Snow Circle" thus takes as a guide the experience of Numa Turcati,
03:18 one of the players who succumbed in the Andes.
03:21 For his interpreter, Enzo Vogrinsic, this role was both an opportunity and a challenge.
03:27 Suffering.
03:29 "It seems that there is no way to tell this story without going through a little suffering,"
03:33 says the Uruguayan 30-year-old.
03:36 For the shooting, the actors gained and lost weight and spent hours immersed in the snow.
03:42 Hungry and cold, Mr. Vogrinsic also shot some scenes despite the fever.
03:48 Recreating the avalanches suffered by the team was a torture, he says.
03:53 But these challenges fed the actors' game and their connection with reality, he estimates.
03:58 "The film recreates the experience in a practically scientific way,"
04:02 smiles Mr. Canessa, "according to which the actors went through the same ordeal as us."
04:07 "The feature film, however, represents a very light version of what happened in the mountains,"
04:13 the survivor nuances.
04:15 "We have lived much worse moments.
04:18 If I present a film about what we have lived, people leave the room," he laughs.
04:24 Ovated at the Venice Film Festival, the film was chosen to represent Spain at the Oscars
04:29 and could be one of the nominees for the Best International Film category.
04:34 Strongly of his experience in the mountains, Mr. Canessa recommends watching it from a distance.
04:40 Sit down in the cinema hall and think about what you would do if the plane crashed in your life.