

Land of Silence and Darkness (1973)
1h 25m 6.9/10 IMDb
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
Cast: Fini Straubinger, Heinrich Fleischmann, Vladimir Kokol, M. Baaske, Resi Mittermeier
Content Warnings
Phobias & Sensory
Confined spaces (claustrophobia)
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