And it’s snowing: 10 movies about how to survive winter

The first snow is falling in the capital, and we are slowly but surely trying to accept the beginning, until the record with Christmas carols calms down in our head and our hand reaches for the Christmas tree gathering dust on the distant shelves. In winter. And at the same time, we warm ourselves with evening movie screenings and warm jokes on the topic of the day – at their junction a selection of the best films about survival in frost, cold and snow was born.

“Survivor” (2015)

The Western film by Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu (“The Birdman”) brought Leonardo DiCaprio his long-awaited Oscar. Hunter Hugh Glass is seriously injured in the vastness of the Wild West, and his friend (played, by the way, Tom Hardy) treacherously leaves him to die alone. Unfortunately, he will have to pay the price for this, because the main character does not plan to give up so easily and is ready to challenge primitive nature, harsh winter and hostile tribes.

“Frozen” (2010)

A chilling thriller about friends who go to a ski resort and get stuck in the ski lift on a Sunday evening and find themselves in the middle of the mountain, a few meters above the ground. There they will have to escape cold and hunger until next Friday, when the resort reopens.

“Heat” (2011)

Thriller movie starring Liam Neesan. The plane crashes in the middle of Alaska, and the surviving passengers find themselves captive in a snowy desert inhabited only by wolf packs.

“White Bondage” (2005)

Paul Walker in the adventure drama from Back to the Future producer Frank Marshall. Events take place in Antarctica, where a scientific expedition is located in search of a meteorite. But an accident and severe weather forces them to abandon their dog sleds and return to base. Now eight dogs must fight for six months to survive in the icy desert and wait for rescue.

“The Day After Tomorrow” (2004)

Climate change is causing complete drought in one part of the world and floods in another. The imminence of disaster forces a climate scientist to travel to New York, which has become the epicenter of a new ice age, in search of his missing son. A frighteningly beautiful movie for those who love disasters.

“Everest” (2015)

Many people dream of conquering the inaccessible Everest, but one of the expeditions to its summit ended in a real tragedy. This is the plot of a movie about instructor Rob Hall, who brings together a group of top climbers to climb the highest peak on the planet. So, even if the mountain is conquered, will they be able to return?

“Snowplow” (2013)

A movie starring Chris Evans, written by Bong Joon Ho, the writer of Parasite. A near-future dystopia where the only suitable place to live is a giant train that rolls endlessly along the Trans-Eurasian highway, through snow and ice.

“Lost in Ice” (2018)

Mads Mikkelsen stars in this gritty, snowy drama about a crashed airline pilot, cut off from the world, desperately fighting for life in the Arctic wilderness. He has learned to cope with cold and hunger, and now he also has to care for a girl, a rescuer who was caught in a storm and died.

“Fighting the Ice” (2022)

Did you miss Jaime Lannister from Game of Thrones? And here it is – in a biographical drama, the events of which unfold in 1909 and tell the story of two explorers. The main characters are looking for traces of the Danish expedition, whose participants discovered Greenland.

“Togo” (2019)

Thanks to the cartoon “Balto”, the whole world knows about the Great Race for Mercy in 1925; A dog sled relay delivered a batch of vital diphtheria serum to Nome, Alaska, for residents. The leader of the team covering the last part of the journey was a dog named Balto, the most famous dog of that time, but this film is dedicated to Togo and his owner Leonard Seppala (played by Willem Dafoe). Film). A distance record of 146 kilometers was broken in the race.