Land of Silence and Darkness

Name: Land of Silence and Darkness
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1973-10-08
Duration: 1 h 25 min
Rating: 7.4
Cast: Fini Straubinger, Heinrich Fleischmann, Vladimir Kokol, M. Baaske, Resi Mittermeier

7.4/ 10 · 0K votes

1973-10-08

1h 25m

Released

Documentary

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.

Director

Werner Herzog

Screenplay

Werner Herzog

Keywords

deaf-mute deaf acceptance struggle for independence observational documentary social acceptance self-acceptance deafness deaf culture deaf and blind deaf couple

Production