My Blind Heart
7.4 /10 1 Votes
Director Peter Brunner Screenplay Peter Brunner Writer Peter Brunner Language German | 7.2/10 IMDb Genre Drama Duration Country Austria | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date March 2013 (2013-03) Music director Peter Brunner, Robert Alexander Schumann Cast Susanne Lothar (Mutter), Christos Haas (Kurt), Georg Friedrich (Paul), Jana McKinnon (Conny), Christopher Scharf (David)Similar movies Those Who Fall Have Wings (2015), The Hope Factory (2014), Farewell To The Moon (2014), Anatomy of a Paper Clip (2013), Riocorrente (2013) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
My blind heart mein blindes herz trailer
My Blind Heart (German title Mein blindes Herz) is an Austrian feature film drama written, directed and edited by Peter Brunner. The film premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, in January/February 2014 and was nominated for a Golden Frog at the prestigious Camerimage Film Festival in November 2014.
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Plot
My Blind Heart is a film about Kurt (Christos Haas), a 29-year-old marine biologist who suffers from the rare disease Marfan Syndrome, which makes him almost blind as well as giving him a very peculiar appearance. After his dream of working at a Shark School is shattered, Kurt kills his mother (Susanne Lothar), with whom he has a suffocating relationship and sets out on a journey to rebel against his body and the limits society tries to set for him. A short stay at a care home results in chaos and him getting kicked out, and he ends up on the streets where he befriends 13-year-old runaway Conny (Jana McKinnon). Conny becomes his partner in crime during his protesting actions, not knowing what Kurt's motives are. Finally, Kurt manages to use a former friend from the care home, Roberto (Robert Schmiedt), to help him achieve his ultimate goal.
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Reception
The film was received mostly well by critics. Variety 's Dennis Harvey called it "a visually arresting black-and-white debut" while Clarence Tsui of The Hollywood Reporter said that it was "boasting scintillating visuals, revolutionary ideology which charges social norms head on, and powerful performances from its cast".
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