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BLIND SPOT

The young Jewish elderly care nurse, DANA, is building a special relationship to the former lifeguard ERNFRIED, who worked at a lido in Nazi Germany, 1944.
Ernfried lives in a home for old people where he suffers from dementia. But when Dana is confronting him with dark suppressed memories, the past is catching up with him.

  • Axel Perenz
    Director
  • Peter Meinhardt
    Key Cast
    "Ernfried"
  • Vanessa Most
    Key Cast
    "Dana"
  • Léon Schröder
    Key Cast
    "Hans"
  • Oliver Moron
    Director of Photography
  • Sarah Frahm
    Assistant Camera
  • Martin Bode
    Assistant Camera
  • Christoph Greiner
    Gaffer
  • Nils Weber
    Sound
  • Fred Prest
    Score composer
  • Billy Märker
    Sound Mixer
  • Sebastian Weinmann
    Production
  • Clément Konopnicki
    Production
  • Frederick Glöckner
    Production
  • Axel Perenz
    Writer
  • Axel Perenz
    Producer
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    BLIND SPOT
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes 30 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    February 28, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    3,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Germany
  • Country of Filming:
    Germany
  • Language:
    German
  • Shooting Format:
    Alexa Mini, Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Axel Perenz

Axel is born in 1989 in East Germany. After years of working as an assistant on shorts, features, advertisement, he starts to find his own language as a storyteller, who put all of his heart and soul into his characters.

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Director Statement

Looking away seems to be a deep protective mechanism in human history. Maybe, we can get inspired, even from blind spots of our past, to finally break through these patterns.