Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Ada Jakob, a young theater director in Hamburg of Icelandic descent, goes blind after having a serious car accident. He doesn't accept his fate and wants to kill himself, until he meets Lily who was born blind and who was sent to him by a rehabilitation center for the blind. Together they somewhat accidentally set off to Russia, where Jakob wants to visit his sick mother.Jakob's origin is the one confusing thing in this movie - the way I figured, he must have grown up in Iceland because of his slight accent, to an Icelandic father and a German mother who was of Russian descent.Even though I'm not a big fan of love stories and of German movies, I really liked this movie because it's a very unusual, strong kind of story. It's hard to describe it, you could say it's a very visual movie, though not in a visual sense. Since it's about being blind, you somewhat empathize with the characters and their way of seeing with all their other senses. Also, I watched it with the audio commentary for the visually impaired, just for fun ;) The dialog in this movie is as mediocre and clumsy as in any other German movie, but the physical acting is definitely brilliant! It's gotta be very hard playing a blind person, but those two actors are doing it perfectly with their gestures and their rigid gaze.An affecting story, outstanding performances and an excellent, award-winning soundtrack make this in my opinion one of the best German movies ever. I was very touched by this, and I can definitely recommend it.

crashmirko 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!

AderK 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

B-Clockworkorange Hi,Warning !!! Spoilers !!!The title refers to a movie scene, where the blind Lilly Walter asks the waitress to imagine the plate as a clock and tell her, where the food is. The waitress tells her, that the Peas are at half past 6.The movie is about Jagnus Magnusson, a theater director (regisseur) in Germany, who becomes blind after a car accident. He meets a blind teacher for blind people, who tries to teach Jagnus how to live as a blind man. First he runs away from Lilly, as he dosn´t want to start a life of blindness. The only thing he wants is to see again. Magnusson starts a journey to his dying mother in Russia. Lilly follows him and travels with him. And on the trip they discover love.The movie is full of warm hearted Romance and Comedy. In one scene they run across a yellow field first trying to find each other. They often miss each other just by an inch. This is one of the main Themes of the movie, searching and finding. The World of the blind is brought to the spectators eyes. Especially Fritzi Haberlandt (lilly)is a great actress, making this movie a success. She looks with open eyes into the eyes of her lover, yet it seems she watching something far, far away.The movie combines Romance and Comedy, but without beeing cheap.Vincent Vega