I Want to Tell You Something ( Ich muss dir was sagen )

I Want to Tell You Something (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Ich muss dir was sagen
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
65 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Deleted Scenes
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2006 and produced in:
Austria ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Martin Nguyen

Written By:
Martin Nguyen

Actors:
Leo & Oscar Badegruber

Synopsis:

ICH MUSS DIR WAS SAGEN is a documentary film about the 4-year old twin brothers Oskar and Leo. Oskar has been deaf since birth, Leo has unimpaired hearing. Both are growing up with a shared language that develops in silence: sign language. Over the course of a year the young filmmaker Martin Nguyen has observed the twins from up close and from their perspective, watching them grow and discover a world that they are getting to know through sign language. The film examines what the diagnosis 'deaf' means to Oskar's hearing parents, Sandra and Stefan. The cochlear implant that could enable Oskar to hear has been an issue since his birth, but for the time being his parents have decided to take sign language classes and to raise the children in what is for them a foreign language. Leo is being brought up bilingual, with sign language and spoken language. For Oskar, however, sign language is his essential form of expression - his mother tongue.

Oskar and Leo are four-year-old twins. Oskar has been deaf since birth and Leo has no hearing impairment. Sandra and Stefan are the twins' parents; they too have no hearing impairments. Oskar must learn to communicate without relying on his loving family and, in turn, they have to try and comprehend the silent world in which Oskar lives. Martin Nguyen's sensitive portrait was filmed in Austria over a year in the life of the Badegruber family. The film articulates the importance of visual communication by transforming a gesture or facial expression into something far louder than any shout. Shot with a beautiful simplicity in and around their modern home, each member of the family is at ease with Nguyen and his camera, allowing a glimpse of natural human activity rarely captured on film.

An honest portrayal of the challenges facing a deaf four-year-old and his hearing family.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 16 May, 2013.