Céleste

1980

German

6.8

Percy Adlon Director

Rolf Illig as

Leo Bardischewski as

Eva Mattes as Celeste Albaret

Jürgen Arndt as Marcel Proust

In 1914, with men gone to war, Marcel Proust hired Céleste Albaret as his attendant. More than eight years later, she was at his side when he died. During this entire time, she only entered his room when he rang for her, sleeping from 9 AM to 3 PM to wait during the night while he wrote. Marcel uses her as more than a servant: she is his muse, telling stories of her childhood to stir his remembrance of things past; she's in cahoots with him as he manipulates those he wants to draw on for his writing; she listens appalled to his descriptions of the underside of Paris. Hers is a life of love and sweet devotion as he races time to finish his work before death.

Land of Silence and Darkness

1971

German

7.9

♡ 14

86%

observational documentary

social acceptance

struggle for independence

Werner Herzog Director

M. Baaske as

Rolf Illig as Narrator

Fini Straubinger as Self

Elsa Fehrer as Self

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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Céleste

Land of Silence and Darkness