The popular film based on true events about a rugby team lost in the snow is leaving Netflix.

One of the most powerful films based on true events, centered on a plane crash in the Andes and the struggle for survival of a group of young people trapped in the snow, will be leaving Netflix's Spanish catalog in the coming days. However, it's not the version of the same story that viewers may have most recently heard, JA Bayona's The Snow Society , due to its recent success.

This is about They Live! (1993), the drama directed by Frank Marshall that recreates the tragedy of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 , which crashed in October 1972. Starring Ethan Hawke and based on the book by journalist Piers Paul Read, the film tells the story of how a Uruguayan rugby team and their companions survived 72 days isolated in the mountains after crashing en route to Chile .

The film, which influenced an entire generation before the arrival of The Snow Society , has been one of the most-watched true-to-life disaster films on the platform for months. The point of view of ¡Viven! prioritizes a Hollywood narrative over pinpoint accuracy, but that didn't stop it from becoming a must-see for survival cinema.

Starring a cast led by Hawke, Josh Hamilton, and Bruce Ramsay, the film was produced with the direct guidance of Fernando Parrado, one of the 16 real survivors . Despite criticism at the time for issues such as the actors' physical appearance or the omission of key figures like the Chilean muleteer Sergio Catalán, the film maintains its value today as a portrait of the human spirit facing its limits.

The departure of ¡Viven! from Netflix 's catalog comes a year and a half after the international success of the version directed by JA Bayona , which rekindled interest in other adaptations of the same story. For many viewers, this 1990s film was the first gateway to the case of the accident in the Andes, becoming a key work within the subgenre of films about traumatic accidents. Netflix will remove it after this Tuesday, July 22 .