The Spanish survival thriller and Oscar candidate ‘The Snow Company’ is preparing to become the most popular non-English-language film on the streaming service Netflix. In just three and a half weeks (from its release on January 4 to last Sunday, January 28), the thriller from director Juan Antonio Bayona (“Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom”) has already been viewed approximately 75.1 million times, Netflix announced late Tuesday. known. evening (CET).
The international title of the film is “Society of the Snow”. The film is about the events after a plane crash in the Andes in 1972. The survivors begin to eat from the corpses that have been kept in ice in the cold.
The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September. Spain submitted the two-and-a-half-hour work as an entry for the 2024 Oscars in the “Best International Film” category, where it starred, among other things, in the German film “The Teacher’s Room” by Ilker Catak. while Wim Wenders’ “Perfect Days” (Japan) and “The Zone of Interest” compete with German acting stars Christian Friedel and Sandra Hülser (United Kingdom).
Netflix’s top 10 lists in four categories (for “Movie,” English/Non-English, and for “TV,” i.e., Series, English/Non-English) are based on views in the first 91 days. The international streaming service does not disclose other longer-term viewing figures.
“Die Schneegesellschaft” still has some time to climb into the top ten in the coming months. For comparison: The most successful Netflix film in the category like ‘The Snow Company’, i.e. in the ‘non-English language film’ category, is the Norwegian monster film ‘Troll’ from 2022 with 103 million views.
The number of views cannot be completely equated with the number of viewers. The number of views is a calculated quantity that, according to Netflix, is calculated by dividing the hours viewed by the running time of the relevant production.
Top 10 of the most popular non-English Netflix films (as of January 28, 2024) – the first 91 days are relevant to this Netflix list, other figures will not be published:
- Monster movie “Troll”, Norway: 103 million views
- Survival thriller ‘Nowhere’, Spain: 85.7 million.
- Science fiction horror film “The Shaft”, Spain (original title “El Hoyo”, English title “The Platform”): 82.8 million.
- Survival thriller “The Snow Society”, Spain (international: “Society of the Snow”): 75.1 million.
- Romcom “Through my window – I only see you”, Spain: 61.1 million.
- Action thriller “AKA”, France: 60.9 million
- Action horror thriller “Blood Red Sky”, Germany: 60.9 million
- Mafia thriller “My name is Vendetta” (“Il mio nome è vendetta”), Italy: 56.4 million.
- Thriller “Operation Black Crab” (original title “Svart krabba”; “Black Crab”), Sweden: 53.9 million.
- Literary film adaptation “All Quiet on the Western Front”, Germany (international: “All Quiet on the Western Front”): 52.1 million (sda/dpa)
Source: Watson
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