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Land of Silence and Darkness

1971-1h 25min
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7.4 / 10 68

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.

Directed by Fini Straubinger Werner Herzog

Writers Werner Herzog

Stars Heinrich Fleischmann Vladimir Kokol M. Baaske

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Heinrich Fleischmann's picture in the cast

Heinrich Fleischmann

Vladimir Kokol's picture in the cast

Vladimir Kokol

M. Baaske's picture in the cast

M. Baaske

Resi Mittermeier's picture in the cast

Resi Mittermeier

Rolf Illig's picture in the cast

Rolf Illig

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