The Blind Spot (2007)

Movie
Original title	The blind spot
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2007
length	85 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Tom Zenker
script	Tom Zenker
music	Tom Zenker Jakob Diehl
camera	Frank Meyer
cut	Sarah Levine
occupation
Jan-Gregor Kremp : Eckhart König Nina Petri : Marianne König Henriette Schmidt : Laura König Jakob Diehl : Max Schreiber Hans-Uwe Bauer : Markus Dietz Josef Heynert : Christian 'Kiki' Klier Dagmar Leesch : Sandra Harald Koch : Madsen Thomas Lawincky : Farmer Mark Waschke : Miller Joachim Kappl : Knight Katinka Auberger : Anja Klier Lukas Weerts : Nico Klier Stefan Kolosko : Mr. Gebhart Eva-Maria Weerts : Mrs. Krawutschke

The Blind Spot is a German film drama from 2007. Tom Zenker directed and also wrote the script for it. ZDF partially co- produced the film as part of “ Das kleine Fernsehspiel ”. The subject of the film is the rebellion of a teenager against their own parents and the existing social system.

action

Eckhart and Marianne König lead a seemingly regular life together with their 18-year-old daughter Laura, until she is suspected of having shot two police officers with her boyfriend Max. Both were close work colleagues of the father, one dies immediately after the crime. Max is on the run and Laura refuses to testify. Family life is thrown off course and relationships are put to the test.

criticism

“The feature film debut does not fully utilize the potential of its excellent actors and suffers from its volatile dramaturgy. If this leaves some plausibility deficits, the camera work is particularly impressive, the conflict situation and the emotional state of the protagonists are impressively translated into a visual language. "

- Film service

"According to his own script, director Tom Zenker staged this psycho-thriller, which does not thrive on superficial action, but rather derives its tension from the character constellation and the inner conflicts of the protagonists."

- prism

Movie title

The film title can be interpreted several times. He alludes to the blind spot from psychology that is displayed in the Johari window . The blind spot describes the area of ​​the personality of a person who is known to other people, but is unconscious to the person himself (or is suppressed by him): Although everyone suspects it, the father does not want it to be true that he has a daughter who is said to have shot two people. He doesn't want to or can't see it that way . Here it is blind, similar to the blind spot of the eye , i.e. that area in which there are no light receptors in the eye.

Awards

• First Steps Award 2007
• German TV Crime Award 2009

Web links

• The blind spot in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The blind spot in the lexicon of international film
• The blind spot at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Blind Spot - The Little TV Game ZDF broadcast on September 25, 2012
2. ↑ cf. filmdienst.de
3. ↑ The blind spot In: Prisma .