Land of Silence and Darkness (1971)

Name: Land of Silence and Darkness
Director: Werner Herzog
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1971
Duration: 1 h 25 min
Rating: 7.4
Cast: Fini Straubinger, Heinrich Fleischmann, M. Baaske, Resi Mittermeier, Rolf Illig

Original Title: Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit

Documentary

7.4 (68 votes)

1h 25m

Overview

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.