Imagine (2012 film)
- Edward Hogg Ian
- Alexandra Maria Lara: Eva
- Melchior Derouet: Serrano
- Francis Frappat: doctor
- João Lagarto: brother Humberto
- Teresa Madruga: Sister Maria
Imagine is a feature film by Polish director Andrzej Jakimowski from the year of 2012.
Action
The blind from birth Ian is now renowned educator for spatial orientation. When he was summoned to an eye clinic in Lisbon, his unusual methods ensure there soon for resistance of hospital management. So Ian rejects the cane, and he teaches spatial vision by backscattered sound waves. His young blind students he thus opens up a new approach to the world. Even if it eventually Ian rarely eliminated the mistrust of the hospital management, so show his unorthodox methods with the students gradually effect, and also the long closed, shy Eva he are increasingly gaining for themselves.
Production
The film was shot on location in and around the Portuguese capital Lisbon.
Attracted the attention of amateur actors consistently shown 16 students that occur in different languages and all were here for the first time on camera. In addition to the main cast also already internationally known, are to supporting roles in several other well-known actors, in particular the French and Portuguese cinema to see, including Teresa Madruga from Portugal and Melchior Derouet from France. Francis Frappat returned with this film back to Lisbon, where he had stood before the camera for Alain Tanner's film adaptation of Antonio Tabucchis novel Lisbon Requiem in 1997.
Reception
Imagine one of the relatively rare movies that are dedicated to the world of the blind. In poetic language, the film is different, intercommunicating people who can not see. On the basis of the story of a brave and compassionate, human teachers of the viewers of the environment is thereby introduced into the world of the senses and their blind, with high intellectual performance associated perception. Light-hearted humor and a gentle romance are other essential components of the work, which is characterized by the unusually patient and characterized by atmospheric, beautiful pictures staging.
The film was shown at various international film festivals, including the Göteborg International Film Festival in January 2013. At the International Film Festival in 2012 and Warsaw at the Polish Film Festival Gdynia 2013 he was thereby awarded prizes. In Germany the film won in 2013, inter alia, the audience awards at the International Film Festival Emden - Norderney and the Bavarian Five Lakes Film Festival.
After Imagine was performed in public for the first time on 13 October 2012, at the International Film Festival Warsaw, he first ran in the Polish cinema, on 12 April 2013. In France, the film came on 23 October 2013, the cinemas in Germany on 2 January. , 2014.