Land of Silence and Darkness (1973)

  • NR
  • 10/08/1973 (US)
  • Documentary
  • 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.

Werner Herzog

Director, Screenplay

Cast

Fini Straubinger's headshot

Fini Straubinger

Heinrich Fleischmann's headshot

Heinrich Fleischmann

Vladimir Kokol's headshot

Vladimir Kokol

M. Baaske's headshot

M. Baaske

Resi Mittermeier's headshot

Resi Mittermeier

Rolf Illig's headshot

Rolf Illig

Voice

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