Land of Silence and Darkness

1971·Germany - West Germany (FRG)·85 min.
Land of Silence and Darkness
7.6
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Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since adolescence, and her work on behalf of other deaf and blind people, this film shows how the deaf and blind struggle to understand and accept a world from which they are almost wholly isolated.

ScreenwriterWerner Herzog
Original titleLand des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit (Land of Silence and Darkness)