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THE BLIND HITMAN

By Christoph GAMPL

First film - Completed 2019

A blind hitman. A young girl. A moment of weakness. It's either a new dawn or the end of it all.

Festivals
& Awards

Tallinn Black Nights IFF 2019

World Fest Houston 2020

Bronze Remi Award

Pargue 2020

Competition

Shanghai 2020

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- First film, Thriller
- Countries
- GERMANY
- Languages
- GERMAN
- Budget
- 0.6 - 1 M$
- Duration
- 82 mn
- Director(s)
- Christoph GAMPL
- Writer(s)
- Boris NAUJOKS, Christoph GAMPL
- Cast
- Kida KHODR RAMADAN, Blerim DESTANI, Susanne WUEST, Dunya RAMADAN, James BIBERI
- Producer(s)
- Christoph GAMPL (Chapplingo Films), Harry FLÖTER (2 PILOTS FILMPRODUCTION GMBH), Jörg SIEPMANN (2 PILOTS FILMPRODUCTION GMBH), Kida KHODR RAMADAN
- Synopsis
- THE BLIND HITMAN is a stylized crossover on the border of genre and arthouse. In the world of a Neo-Noir Berlin, we raise questions about cultural, national and moral identity. In the centre of the story, there is the blind contract killer Momo (Kida Ramadan). When he denies death to a young girl, he derives moral guilt, and things take a terrible turn. In harsh back&white THE BLIND HITMAN dives under the genre surface and reduces the mechanics of gangster film to its symbolic nature. Tough guys, sneaky intrigues, a classic double-cross – but barking dogs don’t bite… or do they?
  
  THE BLIND HITMAN takes up the cudgels for straight storytelling in the notion of film noir. At the same time, it deconstructs classic archetypes like the killer or the godfather. Told in a controversial perspective on migration and crime it reflects current debates in hard-boiled Berlin.