Land of Silence and Darkness (1971)

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.

• Release Date: 1971-10-08
• Runtime: 1h 25min
• Director: Werner Herzog
• Writer: Werner Herzog