Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit (1971)

Title: Land of Silence and Darkness

Original Title: Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit

Release Date: 1971-10-08

Status: Released

Rating: 7.4/10 (from 68 votes)

Language: DE

Genres: Documentary

Production Companies: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Referat für Filmgeschichte

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.