Land of Silence and Darkness

Name: Land of Silence and Darkness
Released: 1971
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 84.42105263157895
Cast: Fini Straubinger

Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit

84%

Documentary

West Germany, 1971, 85 min

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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 accept a world from which they are almost wholly isolated. (British Film Institute (BFI))