Erbsen auf halb 6 (2004)

A film director loses his sight in an accident and must learn to live without his eyes. He and the blind woman assigned to help him go on a funny and romantic adventure that will change both their lives.

Director:

Lars Büchel

Writers:

Lars Büchel, Ruth Toma

Stars:

Fritzi Haberlandt, Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Tina Engel

1 win.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Fritzi Haberlandt	...	Lilly Walter
Hilmir Snær Guðnason	...	Jakob Magnusson
Tina Engel	...	Regine Walter
Harald Schrott	...	Paul
Jenny Gröllmann	...	Franziska Magnusson
Petra Hartung	...	Pflegerin
Jens Münchow	...	Jan
Annett Renneberg	...	Nina
Alice Dwyer	...	Alex Walter
Max Mauff	...	Ben
Michael Hanemann	...	Pfarrer
Heinz Petters	...	Küster
Jens Peter Brose	...	Mann im Kiosk
Ina Holst	...	Zimmerwirtin
Matthias Brenner	...	Bauer

Storyline

A film director loses his sight in an accident and must learn to live without his eyes. He and the blind woman assigned to help him go on a funny and romantic adventure that will change both their lives.

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Plot Keywords:

food in title | road accident | loss of eyesight | dying mother | car crash | 

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Taglines:

Die wunderbare Geschichte einer blinden Liebe (The wonderful story of a blind love)

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site [Germany]

Country:

Germany

Language:

German Russian

Release Date:

4 March 2004 (Germany)

Also Known As:

Groszek na wpól do szóstej

Filming Locations:

Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin, Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

€274,064 (Germany), 14 March 2004

Company Credits

Production Co:

Mr. Brown Entertainment,Senator Film Produktion

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Soundtracks

Blind
Written, composed and performed by Peter Heppner (as Wolfsheim), Markus Reinhardt (as Wolfheim)

User Reviews

good idea - poorly executed

The movie's love story between the blind-since-birth Lilly and the just-gone-blind Jakob is adorable, cute, lovely ... and totally predictable. Other characters like Lilly's mother and sister are only briefly shown as somewhat weird people whose behavior is mostly following clichés or otherwise leaves a lot of questions with the audience without exploring it further.

Fritzi Haberlandt's acting is superb. This is about the best thing about this movie.

Having worked in a social project with blind people, I could not help to think throughout the movie that the plot was quite flawed. Lilly walks around with her white stick in a neighborhood she has never been to before. She asks her friend and mother to just leave her alone at some desolate gas station/restaurant in the middle of rural Russia. "C'mon, get real!", I wanted to shout. Only a suicidal blind person would do that. And no decent person with eyesight, let alone her own mother, would do that to her.

The movie was trying to get the message across, that going blind is not the end of your life. That there are still many things you can enjoy, if you only make the effort to attend special training, re-organise your life, and learn to "see" the world in a different way. Agreed. What the movie completely fails to show is the reality that without a guide person a blind man or woman is completely lost outside his/her familiar surroundings.