Blindsight (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Blindsight, alternatively: Himalaya - The peak of happiness |
| Original title | Blindsight |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 6 JMK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lucy Walker |
| production | Sybil Robson Orr |
| music | Nitin Sawhney |
| camera | Michael Brown, Petr Cikhart, Keith Partridge, Mahyad Tousi, Lucy Walker, Michael Brown |
| cut | Sebastian Duthy |
Blindsight , alternatively Himalaya - The Peak of Happiness , is a documentary by the English documentary filmmaker Lucy Walker . The film was shown in German cinemas on January 10, 2008.
Lucy Walker accompanied in 2004 with her film crew the blind mountain climber Erik Weihenmayer in trying with the students of the Tibetan school for the blind and the German Tibetologist sabriye tenberken the Lhakpa Ri to climb. The film is also a portrait of the story of Erik Weihenmayer and Sabriye Tenberken and their organization Braille Without Borders .
Weihenmayer is the first blind mountaineer to climb Mount Everest . Sabriye Tenberken got in touch with him and developed a project with him to lead six children from their school from Lhasa up Lhakpa Ri, a 7,000-meter peak in the immediate vicinity of Mount Everest. Lucy Walker accompanied the blind students for four months and tells their story, which is shaped by a life as an outsider in a Tibetan society that sees blindness as a stigma . It was Sabriye Tenberken who led the children out of this life with her school for the blind and opened up a future for them. The way to the summit is ultimately not the goal of the expedition. The children do not reach the summit, but the mountaineering experience shows them that blindness does not have to mean being excluded from life.
Premieres
The film had its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on September 11, 2006. In Germany, the film was shown for the first time at the Berlinale 2007 in the Panorama section.
Reviews
“On the expedition, the journey is the goal and it is difficult enough. The blind do not see beautiful nature, but they feel the strength and the will to do something very special. Exactly this aspect comes out very well in the film, without the whole thing coming across as too clichéd. Hats off!"
Awards
- In 2006 the film was nominated for a British Independent Film Award in the category Best British Documentary .
- In 2007 the film received the Panorama Audience Award in the Panorama section at the 2007 Berlinale .
Audio film
An audio description of the film was produced in 2007 by the German Hörfilm GGmbH on behalf of Arte . The image description spoken by Thomas Holländer was nominated for the German Audio Film Award in 2009 and can also be found on the DVD.
Web links
- official homepage
- Official German homepage
- Blind Sight in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Website of the German cinema and DVD sales
- Trailer on kino-zeit.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Blindsight . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2007 (PDF; test number: 112 479 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Blindsight . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Himalayas - The peak of happiness. In: ard.de . Retrieved December 20, 2011 .
- ↑ Blind Sight in Hörfilm database of Hörfilm e. V.
- ↑ 7th German Audio Film Award 2009