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The subject is very hard, its not easy to show what a blind people possible feel and think to see through the moviescreen. However one of the best German actor/producer Til Schweigert was the coproducer, I think this movie could be much more professional and deep. More tricks with the camera, and less humor. Just like an exam-piece of one of the highschools for directing scenes. Just an example:in the scenes and the house of the mother and the beach was a bit too much modern, and didnt fit into the picture how director described other part of Russia...But still very much liked it and recommend

8/10

To my mind this movie is a really outstanding production. The actors deliver superior performances, the script is wonderful, the pictures just beautiful and the music makes it to a masterpiece....

This movie is about a young director for stage plays who becomes blind due to a car accident. Of course he can't handle the situation, is confused and desperate. He meets this girl who is blind since her birth. She works for a rehab center and wants to help him to manage his life.... Somehow I don't wanna tell more: It turns into a road trip to Onega, Russia, where he wants to visit his mother who is going to die.

Definitely a must see movie!

I am so tired of boring, normal love stories as well as deep, sorrowful cinema. In this movie, I found the perfect combination of these two.

Without humor, it would be a normal love story, with blind people, but still a love story. I think, this film doesn't want to show the problems of blind people in detail or how a person, becoming blind deals with it. It is a modern fairy tale. And it's a very good one! It is a perfect film for a couple who want to have a romantic, nice evening.

If you liked this movie, you might also like "Jenseits der Stille", a movie about deaf people and a love story as well.

9/10

This film (English title: Peas at 5:30) came to Minneapolis, MN as part of the Talk Cinema (talkcinema.com) series. Director Lars Buechel was in attendance. Essentially, it's a fairy tale about two blind people who fall in love. Exquisite visuals--a field of yellow flowers, red sculptures on a seashore, a gorgeous new setting of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," expansive city vistas--show us what the lead characters can't see. Brilliant sound editing lets us hear what they hear--rain making music in water glasses, wind blowing curtains. The opening montage is a knockout. Emotionally, the film is a roller-coaster--Buechel packs a lot of grief and tension and hilarity and hope into two hours. When you wonder why the characters never seem to eat, for example, and start thinking that certain events in the film are a bit of a stretch, remember that it is a fairy tale (Buechel's description) and suspend your disbelief. It's worth it for this sensuous and moving experience. Almost all of it was shot in Germany, with a bleak East Germany playing the role of Russia.

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.