A Blind Hero: The Love of Otto Weidt

Description

Grand Remy Award Winner Worldfest Houston 2014

Best Actor Award (for Edgar Selge) Seoul Int’l Drama Award

World Gold Medal for Best Docudrama New York Festivals 2015

Official Selection Haifa Int’l Film Festival

Official Selection Yad Vashem

“This highly nuanced film will leave many viewers reflecting about the nature of goodness… and courage!” – San Diego Jewish World

 

Synopsis

In A BLIND HERO, award-winning journalist and author Inge Deutschkron recounts the incredible true story of Otto Weidt, the man who saved her life and those of many others, in this moving docudrama. Weidt, a Berlin brush and broom manufacturer, using cunning and determination, managed to save not only Inge and her mother but also the rest of his employees from the Nazis. A surprisingly little known story, the film also brings to life his tragic love of Alice Licht and his desperate journey to save her and her family from the gas chamber, all while he himself was almost completely blind.

Director

Kai Christiansen

Press

Jewish Film Series selection “Blind Hero” sees ugliness of world – The Fresno Bee

The Blind Hero: New film tells of ‘unsung Schindler’ Otto Weidt who saved Jews from Nazi death camps – The Independent UK

The Blind Schindler: The Incredible Story of Otto Weidt, Saviour of Hundreds of Jews  – The International Business Times

Links

Otto Weidt – Wikipedia page

Inga Deutschkon – Wikipedia page

Otto Weidt Museum – website

Yad Vashem – Otto Weidt page

Otto Weidt at the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation