---
title: 'Blindness (2008)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Fernando Meirelles'
released: '2008-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 121
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'Brazil'
  - 'Japan'
  - 'Canada'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/blindness-2008'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0861689/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Blindness (2008)

2008 · 121 min · Drama · Brazil, Japan, Canada


## Synopsis

Blindness is a 2008 English-language thriller film about a society that suffers an epidemic of blindness. The film is an adaptation of the 1995 novel of the same name by the Portuguese author José Saramago. The film was written by Don McKellar and directed by Fernando Meirelles, starring Julianne Moore as the doctor's wife and Mark Ruffalo as the doctor. Saramago originally refused to sell the rights for a film adaptation, but the producers were able to acquire it with the condition that the film would be set in an unnamed and unrecognizable city. Blindness premiered as the opening film at the Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2008, and was released in Canada as part of the Toronto International Film Festival on September 6, 2008.

## Credits

- **Screenplay:** [Don McKellar](https://cinepixo.com/people/don-mckellar), [José Saramago](https://cinepixo.com/people/jose-saramago)
- **Director:** [Fernando Meirelles](https://cinepixo.com/people/fernando-meirelles)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Marco Antônio Guimarães](https://cinepixo.com/people/marco-antonio-guimaraes)
- **Producer:** [Niv Fichman](https://cinepixo.com/people/niv-fichman)
- **Director of Photography:** [César Charlone](https://cinepixo.com/people/cesar-charlone)
- **Editor:** [Daniel Rezende](https://cinepixo.com/people/daniel-rezende)

## Cast

- [Mitchell Nye](https://cinepixo.com/people/mitchell-nye)
- [Danny Glover](https://cinepixo.com/people/danny-glover)
- [Martha Burns](https://cinepixo.com/people/martha-burns)
- [Douglas Silva](https://cinepixo.com/people/douglas-silva)
- [Sandra Oh](https://cinepixo.com/people/sandra-oh)
- [Mark Ruffalo](https://cinepixo.com/people/mark-ruffalo)
- [Julianne Moore](https://cinepixo.com/people/julianne-moore)
- [Joris Jarsky](https://cinepixo.com/people/joris-jarsky)
- [Yūsuke Iseya](https://cinepixo.com/people/yusuke-iseya)
- [Alice Braga](https://cinepixo.com/people/alice-braga)
- [Gael García Bernal](https://cinepixo.com/people/gael-garcia-bernal)
- [Yoshino Kimura](https://cinepixo.com/people/yoshino-kimura)
- [Maury Chaykin](https://cinepixo.com/people/maury-chaykin)
- [Eduardo Semerjian](https://cinepixo.com/people/eduardo-semerjian)
- [Joe Pingue](https://cinepixo.com/people/joe-pingue)

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