Land of Silence and Darkness

Synopsis

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.

Director

Werner Herzog

Written by

Werner Herzog

Studio

Werner Herzog Filmproduktion

Released

8 October 1971

Genres

Documentary