1971Documentary1h 25m

Land of Silence and Darkness

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.

7.4
Score

Information

StatusReleased
Original Languagede

Keywords

deaf-mutedeafacceptancestruggle for independenceobservational documentarysocial acceptanceself-acceptancedeafnessdeaf culturedeaf and blinddeaf couple

Production

Werner Herzog Filmproduktion
Werner Herzog Filmproduktion