Movie |
Epidemic | Based On Novel Or Book
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Main Competition | 2008 | César
Top Ten of the Year Audience Award | 2010 | Fernando
Best Actress Audience Award | 2010 | Julianne
Top Ten of the Year International Competition | 2010 | Fernando
Feature Film Best Sound Melhor Som | 2009 | Alessandro
Feature Film Best Art Direction (Melhor Direo de Arte) | 2009 | Tulé
Feature Film Best Sound (Melhor Som) | 2009 | Armando Torres
Feature Film Best Cinematography (Melhor Fotografia de Longametragem) | 2009 | César
Feature Film Best Editing (Melhor Montagem) | 2009 | Daniel
Feature Film | 2009 | Don
Best Cinematography Melhor Fotografia | 2009 | César
2008 | Tulé
Best Motion Picture | 2008 | Fernando
Best Picture (Melhor Filme) | 2009
Best Director (Melhor Diretor) | 2009 | Fernando
Best Supporting Actor (Melhor Ator Coadjuvante) | 2009 | Gael García
Best Supporting Actress (Melhor Atriz Coadjuvante) | 2009 | Alice
Best Supporting Actor in a Canadian Film | 2009 | Gael García
Best Actress in a Canadian Film | 2009 | Julianne
Best Cinematography in Theatrical Feature | 2009 | César
Best Actress | 2009 | Julianne
2008 | Fernando
2008 | Fernando
2008 | Fernando
Main Competition | 2008 | César
Best Supporting Actress | 2008 | Alice
Budget 25,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 19,844,979 USD
To prepare for the film, the actors, actresses,, extras, and crew participated in "blind camps". They were blindfolded, taken in a car to an unknown location, and left in the middle of the street. However, there were always somebody there to guide them. Despite this, Director Fernando Meirelles claimed that someone would always breakdown.
José Saramago, the author of the novel upon which the film is based, wanted to attend the premiere of the film at the Cannes Film Festival. His doctors didn't allow him to travel, so Fernando Meirelles flew to Lisbon, Portugal, to show him the film.Saramago was ultimately enthusiastic about the film. He cried afterwards and told Meirelles that watching the film made him as happy as the day he finished the book.
Like in the novel, there are no names mentioned for any of the characters in the movie.
Producer Niv Fichman became interested in the project back in 1999, when he and Don McKellar, who would write the script, flew to the Canary Islands to talk to the Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese author José Saramago about giving them the film rights to his book. One of Saramago's conditions was that the film must not be set in any recognizable countries.
Saramago asked that the movie didn't depict any country in particular. The movie was shot in São Paulo and Osasco, Brazil; Guelph and Ontario, Canada; and Montevideo, Uruguay.
"King of Ward 3: I will not forget your voice! Doctor's Wife: And I won't forget your face!"
"[from trailer] Doctor's Wife: The only thing more terrifying than blindness is being the only one who can see."
