BLIND AT HEART Caloundra Epic closing film.
Tue, 06 Aug
|Caloundra
Adapted from a best selling German novel, Blind At Heart is an epic that spans decades and is about the decisions people make in tumultuous times to survive. Helene has to change identity, forgo love and do the unthinkable as Germany crashes to defeat. "Richly textured."
Time & Location
06 Aug 2024, 7:00 pm – 9:16 pm
Caloundra, 2/11 Bulcock St, Caloundra QLD 4551, Australia
About the Event
Blind At Heart film trailer HERE
MA 15+ 136min
Director: Barbara Albert. Cast: Mala Emde, Thomas Prenn,Max von der Groeben, Liliane Amuat
A better translation would have been The Blind Side Of The Heart.
This film is essentially about choices people have to make to survive. It's epic in scope as it covers such a dramatic period in Germany's history, but its instantly relatable to the viewer as Mala Emde is memorable and magnetic as the lead character Helene who at the beginning of the film, in childhood, is different to her siblings and not treated well by her mother who has mental issues. The children have to leave.
As an aspiring young medical student, Helene arrives in the exciting, roaring 1920s Berlin with her sister Martha who is much more carefree and they stay with their Aunt who is open minded and parties like the Nazis are never coming.…