Acting
Antonio José Vizintín Brandi
Born
1953-07-24 (73)
Place of birth
Montevideo, Uruguay
Known for
Acting
Credits
3 titles
Antonio José Vizintín Brandi, known as Tintín Vizintín, is a Uruguayan businessman, former rugby player, and survivor of the 1972 Andes flight disaster. He was one of the 16 survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 and later worked in the plastics and chemical industries. He was also president of the Uruguayan Rugby Union and played for the Uruguay national rugby team.
Known for
8.0On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, chartered to take a rugby team to Chile, crashes into a glacier in the heart of the Andes.
Society of the Snow
2023
8.0The story, told by the survivors, of a group of young men, members of a Uruguayan rugby team, who managed to survive for 72 days, at an altitude of almost 4,000 meters, in the heart of the Andes Mountains, after their plane, en route to Chile, crashed there on October 13, 1972.
Stranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains
2007
NRA documentary revolving around the 1972 crash of the plane carrying an Uruguayan rugby team; interviews with survivors and the families of victims.
The Andes's Odyssey
1976