Land of Silence and Darkness

• Rated 7.5 out of 10
• Movie
• 1971
• 1h 25m
• Documentary

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.

Director

Werner Herzog

Starring

Fini Straubinger, Heinrich Fleischmann, Vladimir Kokol, M. Baaske