BLIND LOVES
SLEPÉ LÁSKY
Juraj Lehotský
SK, 2008, 73 min
Language version: Original with English subtitle
Juraj Lehotský's multiple award-winning Slepé lásky / Blind Loves tells the very personal love stories of people who are blind or severely visually impaired. Music teacher Peter and his wife, who is also blind, live happily married in a small prefabricated flat. He is creative and imaginative, she listens to him knitting and takes care of everyday life. The blind Rom Miro falls in love with Monika, but her parents are against this relationship. Elena desperately wants a child and at the same time is afraid whether, as a blind woman, she will be able to cope with all the challenges of motherhood. Zuzana is still very young and in search of her first love, she finds it on the internet. In his "moving and completely unsentimental" (Variety) documentary, director Lehotsky embarks on a sensitive search for the sources of happiness in the lives of blind people.
Supporting film
MARKED BY DARKNESS
POZNAČENÍ TMOU
Štefan Uher
ČSR 1959, 17 min
Language version: Original with English subtitle
The opening film is Poznačení tmou / Marked by Darkness, a short documentary from 1959 about everyday life at the boarding school for visually impaired and blind children in Levoča, where Peter, one of the protagonists from Slepé lásky, works as a music teacher fifty years later. The film was directed by Štefan Uher, who later became known as one of the important directors of the Czechoslovak New Wave.
With Bernd Buder (Programme Director of FilmFestival Cottbus) and Rastislav Steranka (Director of the National Cinema Centre at the Slovak Film Institute) as guests.
A EUNIC-Event by FilmFestivals Cottbus, the Slovak Film Institute, the Slovakian Institute Berlin und des Czech Centre Berlin.
Mo, 27.9.2021, 19:00
Czech Centre Berlin
for free