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Producer(s): POINT DU JOUR

Length:  1x26

Format:  One-off

Original version: French

Versions available: International

Nationality: France

Year: 1998

Rights: tv worldwide

Support(s):  SD – Digital 4/3 , SD - Beta SP

Collection: WINDOW TO THE WORLD (Collection of 'reportages')

CHILE: THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH

Director(s): Gonzalo ARIJON – Writer(s): Gonzalo ARIJON   Contact Contact   Download Print page

Remember the story? Just over 20 years ago, a Uruguayan plane crashed in the Andes, carrying a team of rugby players. 70 days later, a Chilean shepherd makes out two figures in the distance, on the far side of the valley… How did they manage to survive that long? By breaking the “taboo” of our Christian values: they fed on the flesh of their companions who died in the crash in order to survive. They became rapidly known as the “Cannibals of the Andes”. For one of the survivors, 40-year-old Roberto Canessa, one of the foremost heart specialists of the country, the experience has taken on a mystical dimension. Portrait of a man who fell to earth… and who has decided to stay alive.
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