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.