Product Details

• Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Donald Sutherland, Tom Hollander, Lara Flynn Boyle, Marc Warren
• Directors: Robert Edwards
• Writers: Robert Edwards
• Producers: Alan Latham, Alex Brown, Burdette Anderson, Cerise Hallam Larkin, Douglas W. Miller
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Bauer
• DVD Release Date: August 15, 2006
• Run Time: 101 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000FUF9O2
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #34,983 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Land of the Blind" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

A soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their countrys totalitarian government. Studio: Uni Dist Corp (music) Release Date: 08/15/2006 Starring: Ralph Fiennes Lara Flynn Boyle Run time: 101 minutes

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49 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Room 101 Revisited, August 29, 2006

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Aaron Gutsell (Philadelphia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Land of the Blind (DVD)

After expecting "The English Patient, Part VI" We were pleasantly surprised to see Ralph Fiennes head off into uncharted waters. A dark blend of "Nineteen Eighty-Four" and "Brazil" emerges in a fully-formed recreation of the Stalinist revolutionary state, with subreferences to practically every dictator who graced the Twentieth Century.

Donald Sutherland has a chance to shine in a fabulous Castro-esque (the early years) beard, and We were also highly impressed with Lara Flynn Boyle, and Tom Hollander as the son-turned-heir, an unfortunate dictatorial truth still being played out in North Korea. Mr. Hollander was suitably portrayed as a short man next to the leggy Boyle, and the 1950s Peronist costumes set an appropriate tone.

Draw whatever conclusions you will from the film's final scenes- they are the results of torture and re-education camps- but many Russian, Cuban, Argentinian, North Korean, Chinese, Afghani, Italian, Cambodian, George Orwellian dissidents would agree that "Land of the Blind" is a superbly accurate and ironic piece of work.

29 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nothing is Better than Steak, September 13, 2006

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L. Jerome "jamdown" (Silver Spring, Maryland USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Land of the Blind (DVD)

Great movie about a naive soldier, brilliantly played by Ralph Fiennes, who helps to overturn one dictatorship, only to have it replaced by another. A timely film about government oppression, restricted freedom and unfailing courage. I'm surprised that I haven't heard of this film before.

18 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars quite brilliant but ham handed, October 30, 2006

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Seth J. Frantzman (Jerusalem, Israel) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Land of the Blind (DVD)

This is an almost brilliant film, close in greatness to Brazil but misses the makr because of its ham handed idiotic references to current 'terrorist' lingo, which makes it not a timely classic, so it fails becuase it will not play well in ten years, the verbage used in the film will be lost. However there is brilliance here. A mosaic of time periods and dictators, this film references many things, Franco, monks burning themselves, political prisoners, the war on terror, bin Laden, France's war in algeria, Nixon, and even a little known or recalled story of a vietnam POW who blinked morse code on TV. In addition it even references Pol Pot and Kim Jung Il.

This political satire and dark comedy is fascinating in its ability to portray dictatorship, but its use of American uniforms, those used in the war in Iraq, on soldiers shooting civilians is gratuitousa and degrading. Making fun of Pol Pot is one thing, comparing genocide to current U.S policy is sad and too easily.

Set in a fictional country it stars Ralph Fiennes and Donald Sutherland, who deliver great performances. It sourounds a child dictator-director, his tarror card reading wife(ala Noriega) a prison guard turned collaborator with a celebrated terrorist-philosopher.

A must see film, brilliant but has some real tragic drawbacks.

Seth J. Frantzman