Land of Silence and Darkness

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-10-22

Languages:

German

Countries:

West Germany

Runtime:

85 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

(1575 Reviews)

Director:

Werner Herzog

Genres:

Documentary

Cast:

Fini Straubinger M. Baaske Elsa Fehrer Heinrich Fleischmann

Writer:

Werner Herzog

Fullplot:

Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since adolescence, and her work on behalf of other deaf and blind people, this film shows how the deaf and blind struggle to understand and accept a world from which they are almost wholly isolated.

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