Land of Silence and Darkness

19711h 25min

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.

Storyline

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.

Released
October 8, 1971
Runtime
1h 25min
Language
German
Production
Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Referat für Filmgeschichte