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Set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Himalayas, BLINDSIGHT follows the gripping adventure of six Tibetan teenagers who set out to climb the 23,000-foot Lhakpa Ri on the north side of Mount Everest. The dangerous journey soon becomes a seemingly impossible challenge -- made all the more remarkable by the fact that the teenagers are blind. Believed by many Tibetans to be possessed by demons, the children are shunned by their parents, scorned by their villages and rejected by society. Rescued by Sabriye Tenberken, a blind educator and adventurer who established the first and only school for the blind in Tibet, the students invite the famous blind mountain climber Erik Weihenmayer to visit their school after learning about his conquest of Everest. Erik arrives in Lhasa and inspires Sabriye and her students Kyila, Sonam Bhumtso, Tashi, Gyenshen, Dachung and Tenzin to let him lead them higher than they have ever been before. The resulting 3-week journey is beyond anything any of them could have predicted.
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.78:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 3.11 Ounces
- Item model number : 4443845
- Director : Lucy Walker
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
- Run time : 1 hour and 44 minutes
- Release date : January 13, 2009
- Actors : Gavin Attwood, Sally Berg, Sonam Bhumtso, Dachung, Jeff Evans
- Subtitles: : Spanish, English
- Producers : Steven Haft, Sybil Robson Orr, Tricia Cooklin
- Language : Unqualified (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Studio : IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT
- ASIN : B001HB1K1Y
- Number of discs : 1
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What's different is that this film brings you into the lives of children in Lhasa, Tibet (2004) who are stigmatized and cast off because they are blind. You are introduced to a remarkable (also blind) teacher from Germany who invented a braille system for their language, and introduced the children to reading and tri-lingual learning in a school she founded there. Into the stewpot of this story enters a blind alpine climber from Colorado, the only such disabled person to have stood atop Everest. And his big idea.
So you think a crack team of mountaineers has something of high value to teach a half dozen disenfranchised children from a dirt poor region of the world? Watch this movie... and find out.
But these faults may simply be the film's honest exposure of the faults in the underlying story and people: two groups of people that have never met before plan to climb a Himalayan mountain with blind children. While planning and communication in advance can avoid some problems, the real tests will come at altitude.
Whatever the film's faults - and I do not include the open questions that still niggle at me afterwards - this film has moved me like no other in years: at every turn, we see people struggling not just back to their feet after huge blows, but to the roof of the world. We also see the thousand small ways in which, over the years, they have been helped to get to this point. As a result of watching this film, I know that more is possible - and hope that I too might find my Lhakpa Ri. Thank you for reminding me to see.
It was a wonderful documentary and it made me so happy to see what they are doing now. A masterpiece!
Mike
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Blinde Menschen zählen nichts in Tibet, da man annimmt, sie waren schlechte Menschen im vorigen Leben und sind jetzt aus Strafe blind. Daher vegetieren sie meist nur dahin. Besonders betroffen sind natürlich die Kinder. Die bestenfalls nicht beachtet werden. Sabriye Tenberken hat mit viel Mut und Engagement eine Schule für blinde Kinder in Tibet gegründet, die den benachteiligten Kindern ein Heim gibt und eine Chance auf eine gúte Ausbildung.
Gemeinsam mit dem blinden amerikanischen Bergsteiger Erik Weihenmayer, der als erster blinder Mensch den Mount Everest bestiegen hat und einem Team erfahrener Bergsteiger machen sie eine Bergbesteigung mit sechs blinden Kindern.
Eine atemberaubende und spannende Expedition beginnt. Nebenbei werden die einzelnen Schicksale der Mitwirkenden gezeigt, was sehr berührend ist.
Ich werde den Film in Kürze meinem 14 Sohn zeigen und auch in seiner Schule werde ich ihn der Lehrerin empfehlen.
Ein Film, der zu mehr Verständnis beiträgt.
als ich vor vielen Jahren etwas über diese Frau gesehen habe, war meine Bewunderung grenzenlos. Warum spenden Prominente immer nur für
Kinder in Afrika. Anstatt einen US Präsidenten, der nichts zum Frieden beigetragen hat den Nobelpreis zu verleihen, hätte diese Frau hundermal verdient. Ob ihre Bücher oder der Film, kauft die Veröffentlichungen, sie hat es verdient.
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