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Land of Silence and Darkness (German: Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit) is a 1971 documentary film about deaf-blind people and their experience of life. The film was written, directed, and produced by Werner Herzog. Rolf Illig provided narration.
Mar 19, 1980 · Land of Silence and Darkness: Directed by Werner Herzog. With Fini Straubinger, M. Baaske, Elsa Fehrer, Heinrich Fleischmann. 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 ...
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- Werner Herzog
- 1980-03-19
© 2024 Google LLC. "When you let go of my hand, it is as if we were a thousand miles apart".A documentary about 56 year-old Fini Straubinger, blind and deaf since her teens, wh...
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Werner Herzog examines the world of Fini Straubinger, a woman who uses her own conditions of blindness and deafness to call attention to others who are similarly afflicted.
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- Documentary
- Werner Herzog
Feb 12, 2006 · Land of Silence and Darkness (1971): A. His straightforward, austere direction corresponding with his subjects’ difficult interaction with the world, Werner Herzog masterfully conveys the logistical, emotional, and psychological burden suffered by the hearing and sight-impaired in Land of Silence and Darkness.
Fini Straubinger, who went deaf and blind in her teens, takes a woman (deaf/blind since birth) up in an aeroplane for the first time.From Werner Herzog's tea...
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- Chichilatté
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.
