Blind Flight
Synopsis
Brian Keenan and John McCarthy spent four and a half years together, confined underground and chained to the wall of their cell. The two men, pawns in a game of international politics, were utterly different in personality, physical appearance and background.
The bullish working-class Irish Republican Keenan, who went to the Lebanon as a teacher to escape the horrors of Belfast, and his youthful English cellmate, the handsome, charming, upper-class McCarthy, a journalist ironically reporting on Keenan's own captivity, could easily have found each other at opposite ends of a gun barrel in the streets of Keenan's Belfast. Instead, in the face of the most acute deprivation and under the constant threat of death at the hands of their captors, they forged a relationship that transcended all that appeared to divide them.
Blind Flight tells the compelling story of this extraordinary relationship as both men resurrect their deepest memories, feelings, fears and loves which makes the film a 'love story' in the fullest and most humanistic sense.
Details
- Year
- 2004
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 90 mins
- Format
- 35mm
- Director
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John Furse
- Producer
- Sally Hibbin
- Editor
- Kristina Hetherington
- Screenwriter
- John Furse, Brian Keenan
- Director of Photography
- Ian Wilson
- Sound
- Stuart Bruce
- Composer
- Stephen McKeon
- Principal cast
- Ian Hart, Linus Roache
Genre
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Parallax Pictures
7 Denmark StreetLondon WC2H 8LZ, London
UK
T+44 (0)20 7836 1478
www.parallaxindependent.co.uk
Sales Company
Moviehouse Entertainment
9 Grafton MewsLondon W1T 5HZ
UK
T+44 (0)20 7380 3999
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