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Land of Silence and Darkness
1971 7.4 (68 votes) 1h 25m
Genres
Documentary
Production Companies
Werner Herzog Filmproduktion
Referat für Filmgeschichte

Land of Silence and Darkness (Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit)

Overview

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.

Key Crew

Director: Werner Herzog

Screenplay: Werner Herzog

Director of Photography: Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein

Producer: Werner Herzog

Top Cast

Fini Straubinger

Heinrich Fleischmann

Vladimir Kokol

M. Baaske

Resi Mittermeier

Rolf Illig

Voice

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