Land of Silence and Darkness(Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit)
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West Germany · 1971
1h 25m
Director Werner Herzog
Starring Fini Straubinger, Heinrich Fleischmann, Vladimir Kokol, M. Baaske
Genre Documentary
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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.
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