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Blind Loves

Documentary Films - Competition 2008 / Slepé lásky / Slovak Republic 2008

A film about the different forms of love experienced by the sight-impaired, compiled from four stories which illustrate just how rich the world is for people like them. A world which is very often much brighter and more colourful than our own.

Blind Loves Blind Loves

Synopsis

They say that love is blind. But does this apply in the case of love between blind people? Back in 2003 experienced Slovak documentarian Juraj Lehotský began collecting material for his feature-length debut about the different forms of love which sight-impaired people experience. In the end, he compiled his film from four separate stories. The main protagonist of the first tale is music teacher Peter who, apart from perfect pitch, is also endowed with a remarkable imagination eloquently illustrated in the film via playful special effects. The love story between the blind Roma Miro and the weak-sighted white Monika, whose parents aren’t keen on the match, almost assumes the dimensions of a Classical drama. In the next story, we see Elena and Laco, whose love for one another gradually evolves into a parental bond as the pair wait anxiously for the birth of their child. The heroine of the last story is 14-year-old Zuzka, who hopes that the boy she has found on the Internet is The One. This delicate mosaic of stories about heroes blind from birth opens up the rich world that these people have created for themselves. A world which is very often much brighter and more colourful than our own.

About the film

77 min / Color, 35 mm

Director Juraj Lehotský / Screenplay Juraj Lehotský, Marek Leščák / Dir. of Photography Juraj Chlpík / Editor František Krähenbiel / Producer Marko Škop, Ján Meliš, František Krähenbiel, Juraj Chlpík, Juraj Lehotský / Production Artileria / Contact Artileria, s.r.o., Autlook Filmsales, Artcam Films / Distributor Artcam Films
www: www.blindloves.com

About the director

Juraj Lehotský

Juraj Lehotský (b. 1975, Bratislava) attended applied-art college in Bratislava during the years 1990–1994, with special focus on photography. From 1995 to 2000 he studied documentary film direction at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. He works as a director of documentary films, he also makes video clips, commercials and advertising spots for charities. Filmography: 1995: The Silent World of Jožko Baláž (Tichý svet Jožka Baláža); 1996: With Enough Effort We’ll Get Our Diplomas (Budeme mať výkony, budeme mať diplomy); 1997: A Funeral Is Actually a Premiere (Pohreb je vlastne premiéra); 1998: Unwanted Children (Nechcené deti); 1999, Twins (Dvojičky); 2000: I Didn’t Know I Would Love You So Much (Nevedel som, že ťa budem mať tak rád); 2001: Interview (Rozhovor).

Contacts

Artileria, s.r.o.
Drobného 23, 841 01, Bratislava
Slovakia
E-mail: [email protected]

Autlook Filmsales
Spittelberggasse 3/14, 1070, Vienna
Austria
Phone: +43 720 346 934
E-mail: [email protected]

Artcam Films
Rašínovo nábřeží 6, 128 00, Praha 2
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 221 411 619
Fax: +420 221 411 699
E-mail: [email protected]

Guests

Marko Škop
Film Director, Producer

Juraj Lehotský
Film Director

Marek Leščák
Screenwriter

Juraj Chlpik
Director of Photography, Director of Photography

František Krähenbiel
Film Editor, Film Editor

Ján Meliš
Producer

Dan Harvan
Film Crew, Film Crew

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