Drama, 124 min
With : Daniel Brühl, Jesper Christensen, Amira Casar, Denis Lavant, Geraldine Chaplin
Sebastian Zöllner (Daniel Brühl), art journalist and master of overconfidence, plans his big coup: a tell-all book about the legendary, but almost forgotten painter Manuel Kaminski (Jesper Christensen), a pupil of Matisse and friend of Picasso who once became famous as "the blind painter." Zöllner, an unscrupulous and ambitious careerist, makes his way to the remote chalet high in the Alps where the aged artist lives withdrawn and shielded by confidants.
Sebastian intrudes into Kaminski's home, life and past, unceremoniously taking him on a breakneck and insane journey to his childhood sweetheart, who has long been considered dead. On the way, he tries to elicit Kaminski's secrets with cunning and audacity. But Sebastian soon discovers that, whether blind or not, he's in no way the old man's equal.
Director Wolfgang Becker
Author (novel) Thomas Wendrich
Co-writer Wolfgang Becker
Key cast Daniel Brühl
Key cast Jesper Christensen
Key cast Amira Casar
Key cast Denis Lavant
Key cast Geraldine Chaplin
Director of photography Jürgen Jürges
Production designer Carola Gauster
Costume designer Nicole Fischnaller
Editor Peter R. Adam
Sound editor Sylvain Remy
Composer Lorenz Dangel
Producer X Filme Creative Pool
Distributor X Verleih
Distributor Warner Home Video
