Land of Silence and Darkness

*7.4

Status

Released

Production

Werner Herzog Filmproduktion

Aired

1971-10-08

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.