Blind Flight
2003, 94 minutes, Rated MA
Blind Flight is the true account of the kidnapping of Brian Keenan and his subsequent captivity with John McCarthy in Lebanon in 1986.
The men spend four and a half years together, confined underground for much of the time and often 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 Irishman Keenan, who went to Lebanon as a teacher to escape Belfast, and his youthful English cellmate, 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 strife-torn streets of Keenan's Belfast. Instead, in the face of the most acute deprivation and under constant threat of death at the hands of their captors, they forged a relationship which transcends all that appeared to divide them.
- Director:
- John Furse [1],
- Starring:
- Ian Hart [18], Linus Roache [14], Mohammed Chamas [1], Ziad Lahoud [1], Bassem Breish [1],
- Screen Formats:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Language and Sound:
- English Dolby Digital Stereo
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