Blindness
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Fernando Meirelles
Joe Pingue
Julianne Moore
Gael García Bernal
Jason Bermingham
Sari Friedland
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
It begins in a flash, as one man is instantaneously struck blind while driving home from work, his whole world suddenly turned to an eerie, milky haze. One by one, each person he encounters--his wife, his doctor, even the seemingly good Samaritan who gives him a lift home--will in due course suffer the same unsettling fate. As the contagion spreads, and panic and paranoia set in across the city, the newly blind victims of the "White Sickness" are rounded up and quarantined within a crumbling, abandoned mental asylum, where all semblance of ordinary life begins to break down. But inside the quarantined hospital, there is one secret eyewitness: one woman who has not been affected but has pretended she is blind in order to stay beside her beloved husband. Armed with increasing courage and the will to survive, she will lead a makeshift family of seven people on a journey, through horror and love, depravity and beauty, warfare and wonder, to break out of the hospital and into the devastated city where they may be the only hope left.
Director
Fernando Meirelles
Cast
Joe Pingue
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Julianne Moore
Gael García Bernal
Jason Bermingham
Sari Friedland
Daniel Zettel
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Danny Glover
Kelly Fiddick
Mitchell Nye
Rick Demas
Gerry Mendicino
Alice Poon
Maury Chaykin
Bathsheba Garnett
Yusuke Iseya
Martha Burns
Mark Ruffalo
Amanda Hiebert
Antonio Fragoso
Isai Rivera Blas
Eduardo Semerjian
Mike G-yohannes
Carol Hubner
Nadia Litz
Marvin Karon
Tom Melissis
Domingos Antonio
Alice Braga
Agi Gallus
Toni Ellwand
Daniel De Paula Galvao
Joe Cobden
Gonzalo Barbe
Mel Ciocolato
Fabiana Gugli
Niv Fichman
Fernando Macario
Matthew Fitzgerald
Douglas Silva
Matt Gordon
Susan Coyne
Tracy Wright
Eduardo Parisi
Jorge Molina
Oscar Hsu
Victoria Fodor
Yoshino Kimura
Robert Bidaman
Sandra Oh
Patrick Garrow
Mariah Inger
Cica Meirelles
Joseph Motiki
Otavio Martins
Plinio Soares
Michael Mahonen
Rodrigo Pessin
Johnny Goltz
Norm Owen
Billy Otis
Fernando Patau
Rodrigo Arijon
Joao Velho
Joris Jarsky
Marcio Ribas
Mpho Koaho
Heraldo Firmino
Lilian Blanc
Jackie Brown
Linlyn Lue
Scott Anderson
Don Mckellar
Anthero Montenegro
Crew
Katie Abbott
Paulo Abel
Cristina Abi
Gerardo Gonzalez Aguirres
Paulo De Tarso Akamine
Micaela Alaniz
Ilona Alfaro
Julie Allain-launay
Eliseo Alvarez
Simone Alves
Valentina Rodriguez Amado
Lisa Amaral-wright
Jose Adolpho Amarante
Cecilia Amorim Ambrosoni
Cynthia Amsden
Joao Paulo Andrade
Renee April
Claudia Apud
Arrigo Araujo
Radames Araujo
Diego Arduino
Maria Helena Arneiro
Diego Arsuaga
Mary Arthurs
Keisuke Asada
Eduardo Decio Augusto
Daniela Antonelli Aun
Evan Ayotte
Guilherme Ayrosa
Agustin Aznarez
Gregorio Aznarez
Nicolas Aznarez
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sybele Badran
Maria Noel Fernandez Baez
Mariana Martini Bagarollo
Marina Balarin
Martin Santiago Forcella Balbi
Juan Fco Baldomir
Jesse Balzan
Alonso Banales
Kashka Banjoko
Kevin Banks
Israel Alves Barbosa
Reginaldo Barbosa
Robeto Baroboskin
Alexandre Barros
Klaus Bartram
Marcello Bartz
Israel Basso
Renato Batata
Andre Batista
Lex Batten
Chris Bell
Marcela Bellini
Leslie Bentancor
Cesar Javier A Bento
Dario Alonso Bento
Elena Berdichevsky
Julio Berkenstein
Bel Berlinck
Gael García Bernal
Pablo Berti
Zena Bielewicz
James Binkley
Matt Birman
Tiago Bittencourt
Thiago Vilas Boas
Ze Bob
Adam Bocknek
Patricia Dalla Bona
Luiz Bonfa
Sandie Bornstein
Gustavo Bouzas
Deirdre Bowen
Darren Boyce
Eduardo Braga
Geisa Brait
Fernanda Brenner
Jonathan Brown
Randy Brown
Julio Brunerau
Daniel Buelmo
Gal Buitoni
Fabio Burtin
Claudia Bnschel
Marilia Scharlach Cabral
Nicolas Cabrera
Luis Caires
Leandro Calazans
Nelson Calazans
Rosalind Callahan
Paul Cameron
Maria Macarena Durquet Cammaratto
Juan Campomar
Amaro Campos
Aline Canella
Aruan Canolla
Shawn Cantelon
Florencia Canton
Felipe Arnaut Cappellini
Pablo Cardoso
Toti Cardoso
Willian C Carlos
Lea Carlson
Rafael Carmona
Stephen Carr
Louis Casado
Gaston Casas
Alessandra Casolari
Rodrigo Castellar
Wilson Castro
Teresa De Jesus Catalani
Rossana Brancaccio Cedres
Inara Censig
Alejandro Centurion
Lula Cerri
Bengoaivanna Cestau
Simon Channing-williams
Simon Channing-williams
Ctsar Charlone
Ctsar Charlone
Ctsar Charlone
Daniel Charlone
Maria Elena Eliash Charlone
Penny Charter
Kevin Cheng
Cristina Cirne
Gaston Colominas
Cartaz Comunicacao
Cris Conceicao
Andy Condon
Sue Conley
Sierra Constantinides
Joana Cooper
Ciaran Copelin
Ana Marina Costa
Claudio Costa
Daniel Costa
Marcelo Cotrim
Gabriel Couto
Jose Carlos Couto
Scott Cowan
Rob Crawther
Esli Leal Da Cruz
Glauco Cruz
Mario Crystal
Alvaro Cuevas
Sebastian Carlos M Cuevas
Carlos Cunha
Enzo Cunha
Caue Custodio
Marcos Rogerio D. Silva
Lucio Da Costa
Wagner Augusto Da Costa
Adao A Da Silva
Ednaldo Da Silva
Jorge Eduardo Da Silva
Michel Jorge B. Da Silva
Andrew Daley
Bob Davidson
Matthew Davies
Greg Davis
Nadia Day
Pablo Laporte De Armas
Joshu De Cartier
Andrezza De Faria
Ademir C De Jesus
Cecilia Homem De Mello
Ricardo De Mello
Ikaro Eduardo De Moraes
Davi Brito De Oliveira
Luiz De Oliveira
Pedro Luiz De Santana
Drika Castro De Souza
Sebastian Deanes
Lucas Decina
Tyler Delben
Ricardo Della Rosa
Maximiliano Destro
Shaun Dewet
Sonya Di Rienzo
Horacio Carlos Silva Di Verio
Joao Santos Do Amaral
William Ivan Do Amaral
Victoria Dobson
Dwight Doerksen
Ed Doerksen
Fernando Ap. Dos Santos
Marcos Antonio Dos Santos
Pat Duchesne
Eduardo Augusto Duque
Rolando Duque
Pedro Arias Duran
Fiorella Durante
Natalia Dure
Karen Durrant
Maria Jose Diaz Dutra
Christian Duurvoort
Gail Egan
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States Fall October 3, 2008
Released in United States on Video February 10, 2009
Released in United States 2008
Shown at Vancouver International Film Festival (Galas) September 25-October 10, 2008.
Based on the novel "Ensaio Sobre A Cegueira" by Jose Saramago; published by Harvill Press in 1995.
Project was included on the 2007 Black List.
Released in United States Fall October 3, 2008
Released in United States on Video February 10, 2009
Released in United States 2008 (Shown at Vancouver International Film Festival (Galas) September 25-October 10, 2008.)