Land of Silence and Darkness (1971)

• Documentary

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.

Rating

7.5 / 10 (78 votes)

Release date

October 8, 1971

Runtime

1h 25m

Language

German

Director

Werner Herzog

Status

Released