'Survivors Gustavo Zerbino and Mamadou Kouassi inspire powerful films, 'Society of the Snow' and 'Io Capitano,' revealing the resilience of the human spirit in the face of harrowing ordeals.
"Survivors Gustavo Zerbino and Mamadou Kouassi inspire powerful films, 'Society of the Snow' and 'Io Capitano,' revealing the resilience of the human spirit in the face of harrowing ordeals.Gustavo Zerbino and Mamadou Kouassi both have survived horrifying ordeals, one endured 72 days in the frozen Andes by eating human flesh after an infamous plane crash; the other suffered brutal imprisonment, extortion, and slavery on the African migrant trail to Europe.
Thirty-three of the 45 on board survived the initial impact, but only 16 were left after a ten-week ordeal on an Andean glacier without food, shelter, or even warm clothes in -30 Celsius weather, at an altitude of some 3,600 meters.Director Matteo Garrone, best known for the mafia drama"Gomorrah," tells in"Io Capitano" the harrowing story of African migrants before they have even reached the perilous Mediterranean crossings that occupy most Western headlines.
The film portrays graphic scenes of torture, and Kouassi recalls fellow inmates"killed in the prison, in the cells."
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