Land of Silence and Darkness

1h 25m
Documentary
7.4

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.

Cast

Fini Straubinger
Unknown
Heinrich Fleischmann
Unknown
Vladimir Kokol
Unknown
M. Baaske
Unknown
Resi Mittermeier
Unknown
Rolf Illig
Voice

Crew

Werner Herzog
Director, Screenplay, Producer, Sound Recordist
Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
Editor
Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
Director of Photography

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