Land of Silence and Darkness (1971)
Documentary • 1ч 25м
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.
TMDB rating:
7.4
(73)
Cast
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Fini Straubinger
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Heinrich Fleischmann
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Vladimir Kokol
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M. Baaske
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Resi Mittermeier
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Rolf Illig
Voice
Crew
Werner Herzog
Screenplay
Werner Herzog
Director
Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
Editor
Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
Director of Photography
Werner Herzog
Producer
Werner Herzog
Sound Recordist
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