Saliya Kahawatte
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His life ambitions are sadly broken when his retina detaches and he becomes partially blind. He can't go to university. After further being rejected for apprenticeships due to his disability, he then sets about getting a job by spoofing that he fully sighted.
Saliya becomes blind as a teenager, and in spite of everyone telling him he has limits, he starts working in a luxury hotel by keeping his condition a secret. His bluff starts to unravel when he...
- Comedy, Drama, Biography
- Kostja Ullmann
- Marc Rothemund
"My Blind Date with Life" is an inspiring German comedy-drama released in 2017, based on the true story of Saliya Kahawatte. The film follows Saliya's remark...
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My Blind Date with Life: Directed by Marc Rothemund. With Kostja Ullmann, Jacob Matschenz, Anna Maria Mühe, Johann von Bülow. An ambitious young man struggles to achieve his dream of becoming an employee in a Munich luxury hotel despite being strongly visually impaired.
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- Biography, Comedy, Drama
- Marc Rothemund
- 2017-01-26
Mar 28, 2018 · My Blind Date with Life is a good-natured, if rather formulaic, romantic comedy about Saliya (Kostja Ulmann) who, determined not to let his blindness undermine his dream of working in a...
Plot. German - Sinhalese Saliya Kahawatte prepares for his Abitur, when he finds his eyesight progressively decreasing. After conducting an examination, his ophthalmologist tells him and his family, that the only way to retain at least a small fraction of his eyesight would be an immediate surgery.
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Aug 11, 2017 · My Blind Date With Life (Cert 15; 115mins) That may not sound too thrilling but student Saliya (Kostja Ullmann) is virtually blind and this jaunty, upbeat German production is based on a...
