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.
Title | Land of Silence and Darkness |
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Year | 1971 |
Genre | Documentary |
Country | Germany |
Studio | Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Referat für Filmgeschichte |
Cast | Fini Straubinger, Heinrich Fleischmann, Vladimir Kokol, M. Baaske, Resi Mittermeier, Rolf Illig |
Crew | Werner Herzog (Director), Werner Herzog (Screenplay), Werner Herzog (Producer), Werner Herzog (Sound Recordist), Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus (Editor), Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein (Director of Photography) |
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Release | Oct 08, 1971 |
Runtime | 85 minutes |
Quality | HD |
IMDb | 7.40 / 10 by 67 users |