Land of Silence and Darkness (1971)

• 79%
• 1971
• Documentary
• Werner Herzog
• Fini Straubinger
• Heinrich Fleischmann
• Vladimir Kokol

Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since adolescence, and her work on behalf of other deaf and blind people, this film shows how the deaf and blind struggle to understand and accept a world from which they are almost wholly isolated.