Blind at Heart

The touching story of a young woman at the beginning of the 20th century who becomes a mother under the most adverse circumstances.  Strokes of fate and the cover-up of her Jewish ancestry during the Nazi era gradually rob her of her identity. Despite the fear, the courage to make an outrageous decision grows, moved by the hope
for a new beginning.  

Based on the bestseller Die Mittagsfrau
by Julia Franck.

Born in Vienna in 1970, Barbara Albert studied directing and screenwriting at the Vienna Film Academy. After her first internationally successful short films, her first feature film NORDRAND celebrated its award-winning premiere in the competition of the Venice Film Festival in 1999. In the same year, Barbara Albert founded the production company coop99 together with Martin Gschlacht, Jessica Hausner and Antonin Svoboda. As a producer she was co-responsible for films such as DIE FETTEN JAHRE SIND VORBEI, DARWIN'S NIGHTMARE, TONI ERDMANN and QUO VADIS, AIDA?, the latest nominated for 'Best International Picture' at the 2021 Academy Awards®.

As a writer she collaborated with Jasmila Zbanic, Andrea Staka, Ruth Mader and Michael Glawogger.

After BÖSE ZELLEN (2003), FALLEN (2006), DIE LEBENDEN (2012) and LICHT (2017), competition entries in Locarno, Venice and San Sebastián, her first series work, 'Funeral for a Dog', co-directed with David Dietl for Sky Germany, was screened in 2022.

Barbara Albert is a founding member of the Academy of Austrian Film and winner of the Austrian Art Award. She is a member of the German and European Film Academies and a professor at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf.

She lives and works in Berlin and Vienna.

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY

2017 Licht
2012 Die Lebenden
2006 Fallen
2003 Böse Zellen