Land of Silence and Darkness
Land of Silence and Darkness

Land of Silence and Darkness

7.4(71 votes)
1971
1h 25m
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.

Production

Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Referat für Filmgeschichte

Cast

Fini Straubinger

Fini Straubinger

Heinrich Fleischmann

Heinrich Fleischmann

Vladimir Kokol

Vladimir Kokol

M. Baaske

M. Baaske

Resi Mittermeier

Resi Mittermeier

Rolf Illig

Rolf Illig

Voice

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