Land of the Blind

Movie
German title	Land of the Blind
Original title	Land of the Blind
Country of production	United States , United Kingdom
original language	English
Publishing year	2006
length	110 minutes
Rod
Director	Robert Edwards
script	Robert Edwards
production	Jon Avnet , Cerise Hallam Larkin , Alan Latham , Philippe Martinez , Stanley Roup
music	Guy Farley
camera	Emmanuel Kadosh
cut	Distant pearl stone
occupation
Ralph Fiennes : Joe Donald Sutherland : Thorne Lara Flynn Boyle : First Lady Josephine Tom Hollander : Maximilian II Camilla Rutherford : Tania Marc Warren : Pool Robert Daws : Jones Don Warrington : First Sergeant Ron Cook : Doc Laura Fraser : Madeleine Miranda Raison : Daisy Michael Smiley : Lieutenant Jonathan Hyde : Smith Stephen Moyer : Johnny Boy Barth

Land of the Blind is an American - British drama from 2006 . It was directed by Robert Edwards , who also wrote the script.

action

The events are told from the perspective of the incarcerated Joe. The action takes place in the fictional country Everycountry, which is ruled authoritarian by the president Maximilian II for life. The time of the action is also fictional and spans the years -5 to +25 (0 being the year of the revolution). Torture , executions and rape determine the lives of the people in everycountry. The playwright Thorne founds the party “Citizens for Democracy and Justice”, which leads an underground armed struggle against the inhuman system of Maximilian. The fighters act just as brutally as the government troops and do not shy away from bomb attacks and the mutilation of innocent people.

Thorne is imprisoned. Joe falls to the task of guarding the public enemy . Joe begins to be interested in Thorne's ideas. Even when Joe served in a mysterious "Battalion 6" after his job as a caretaker and was promoted to officer , the two were in correspondence. They see each other again after Thorne's dismissal, which was initiated under popular pressure. Joe has since married and is a guard at the presidential palace. A short time later, Thorne storms the president's residence with the help of Joe. Maximilian II and his wife Josephine are surprised during a bizarre sex game and shot by Thorne. Thorne takes power and rules with the same harshness as his predecessor. Re-education camps are set up for his opponents. The revolution has brought neither freedom nor peace to people.

First of all, Joe is celebrated as a hero on billboards and on television, because he made the fall of Maximilian possible. However, he has doubts about the rightness of his actions - he had always hoped to be able to serve his country in this way. Now he realizes that this was not the case. When he refuses to take an oath on Thorne, Thorne has him thrown in jail. Joe resists all attempts at re-education. He will never see his wife and daughter again. After two decades, dictator Thorne is overthrown and Everycountry is ruled by a nephew of Maximilian II, who was in exile . It remains to be seen whether this will bring about an improvement for the people. Joe remains in prison because he is now accused of helping to overthrow Maximilian II. In the final sequence, Joe is seen sitting at the typewriter in prison, he imagines his now grown-up daughter coming to visit. The young woman is later seen crying in a hallway - she was really in prison with her father, who didn't notice her.

Reviews

Jay Weissberg wrote in Variety magazine on February 21, 2006 that the film was one of the " particularly spectacular failures " of the year. He lacks originality; it does not function as a political satire.

backgrounds

The film was shot in London . It was shown on January 31, 2006 at the International Film Festival Rotterdam ; on August 10, 2006 it was shown at the Rhode Island International Film Festival . The film was released in two cinemas in the USA, in which it grossed around 5,000 US dollars . In most countries it was released directly on DVD, in Germany it was on November 22, 2007.

Web links

• Land of the Blind in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Land of the Blind at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
• Land of the Blind at Metacritic (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Film review by Jay Weissberg, accessed on December 4, 2007 ( Memento of the original from November 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Filming locations for Land of the Blind, accessed December 4, 2007
3. ↑ Land of the Blind premiere dates, accessed December 4, 2007
4. ^ Box office / business for Land of the Blind, accessed December 4, 2007