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Blind flight - Linus Roache, Ian Hart, Bassem Breish, John Furse

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Movie propaganda

Blind flight is the true account of the kidnapping of Brian Keenan and his subsequent captivity with John McCarthy in the Lebanon in 1986.

Brian Keenan (Ian Hart) and John McCarthy (Linus Roache) 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 cell mate, 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.

Persons of interest

Linus Roache .... John McCarthy
Ian Hart .... Brian Keenan
Bassem Breish
Mohamad Chamas
Ziad Lahoud
John Furse .... Screenwriter
John Furse .... Director

Cinematic intelligence sources

Blind flight official movie site
Blind flight QuickTime movie trailers
Awards and film festivals:

Tribeca Film Festival 2004: Won: Best Actor (Ian Hart)

Studios and distributors:

21st Century Pictures

Intelligence analyst

Special Agent Matti

Theatrical report

Media intelligence (DVD)

Audio: AC-3 Stereo
Languages: English
Picture: Widescreen 16:9
Special features:

Trailers: Upcoming releases

Security censorship classification

M (Medium level violence, medium level coarse language, mature themes)

Surveillance time

97 minutes (1:37 hours)

Not for public release in Australia before date

DVD rental: 27 October 2004
VHS rental: 27 October 2004