Land of the Blind
2006 · Movie · 101 min. · United Kingdom
Land of the Blind is a satiric political drama about terrorism, assassination, and the power of memory. The film is set in an unnamed place and time, where an idealistic soldier named Joe (Ralph Fiennes) strikes up an illicit friendship with a political prisoner named Thorne (Donald Sutherland). Through their conversations in the high-security military prison where Thorne is held, Joe slowly begins to question his allegiance to the country's brutal but clownish dictator and his Machiavellian wife. Eventually Thorne succeeds in recruiting Joe to the rebel cause, leading to a bloody coup d'etat with echoes of countless tyrannies, revolutions, and counter-revolutions throughout history. But in the post-revolutionary world, what Thorne asks of Joe leads the two men into bitter conflict, spiraling downward into madness until Joe's co-conspirators conclude that they must erase him from history.
Direction Robert Edwards
Cast Ralph Fiennes · Donald Sutherland · Tom Hollander · Lara Flynn Boyle · Marc Warren · Ron Cook · Don Warrington · Laura Fraser · Robert Daws · Jonathan Hyde · Jodhi May · Camilla Rutherford · Miranda Raison · Cory McAbee
Soundtrack Guy Farley
Screenplay Robert Edwards
Cinematography Emmanuel Kadosh
Original title Land of the Blind
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