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Land of Silence and Darkness

  • October 1971
  • 1hr

    25mins

  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Werner Herzog,

    Starring

    Heinrich Fleischmann,

    Vladimir Kokol,

    M. Baaske,

    Resi Mittermeier

    ...

    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.