Watch NowLand of Silence and Darkness (1971)
08/10/1971
Documentary
1h 25m
- 74% (69 votes)
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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.
- Werner HerzogDirector, Screenplay
Original Title
Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit
Status
Released
Original Language
German
Top Billed Cast
Fini Straubinger
Heinrich Fleischmann
Vladimir Kokol
M. Baaske
Resi Mittermeier
Rolf Illig
Voice
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