Land of Silence and Darkness

Land of Silence and Darkness

85 mins | Documentary | Oct. 8, 1971

Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since her teens, and her work on behalf of other deaf-blind people, this film shows how the deaf-blind struggle to understand and accept a world from which they are almost wholly isolated.

Land of Silence and Darkness

85 mins | Documentary | Oct. 8, 1971

Land of Silence and Darkness
Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since her teens, and her work on behalf of other deaf-blind people, this film shows how the deaf-blind struggle to understand and accept a world from which they are almost wholly isolated.
IMDb rating 7.9
Producers Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Referat für Filmgeschichte
Original title Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit
Directors Werner Herzog
Writers Werner Herzog