Land of Silence and Darkness
1971•1h 25m•7.5•Released
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
Writer
Werner Herzog
Languages
German
Studio
Werner Herzog Filmproduktion
Cast
Fini Straubinger
Heinrich Fleischmann
Vladimir Kokol
M. Baaske
Resi Mittermeier
Rolf Illig
Voice
Production
Company
Werner Herzog Filmproduktion
Company
Referat für Filmgeschichte
Producer
Werner Herzog
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