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.
Director:
Werner Herzog
Writer:
Werner Herzog
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Fini Straubinger as |
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Heinrich Fleischmann as |
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Vladimir Kokol as |
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M. Baaske as |
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Resi Mittermeier as |
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Rolf Illig as Voice |
| Directing | Werner Herzog | Director |
| Writing | Werner Herzog | Screenplay |
| Editing | Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus | Editor |
| Crew | Werner Herzog | Sound Recordist |
| Camera | Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein | Director of Photography |
| Production | Werner Herzog | Producer |