Land of Silence and Darkness
Land of Silence and Darkness

Movie·1973·1h 25m

Land of Silence and Darkness

Country

Germany

Language

German

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The Story

Original title: Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit

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.

Producer

Werner Herzog

Cinematography

Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein

Editor

Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus

Themes

deaf-mutedeafacceptancestruggle for independenceobservational documentarysocial acceptanceself-acceptancedeafnessdeaf culturedeaf and blinddeaf couple

Production House

Werner Herzog Filmproduktion
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Audience Score

74%

73 votes

Skip8%
Timepass19%
Go for it38%
Perfection35%

// cast

Cast

Fini Straubinger

Heinrich Fleischmann

Vladimir Kokol

M. Baaske

Resi Mittermeier

Rolf Illig

Voice

// crew

Crew

Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog

Screenplay, Director, Producer

Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus

Editor

Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein

Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein

Director of Photography

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