
Land of Silence and Darkness (1971)
Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit (original title)Reference View | Change View
- Not Rated
- 1h 25min
- Documentary
- 19 Mar 1980 (France)
- Movie
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...
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M. Baaske |
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Elsa Fehrer | ... |
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Heinrich Fleischmann | ... |
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Rolf Illig | ... |
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Vladimir Kokol | ... |
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Resi Mittermeier | ... |
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Gustav Heinemann | ... |
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Directed by
Werner Herzog |
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Werner Herzog | ... | () |
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Werner Herzog | ... | producer |
Cinematography by
Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein |
Editing by
Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus |
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- Palace Video (1983) (United Kingdom) (VHS) (subtitled)
- Palace Video (1983) (United Kingdom) (video) (Betamax) (subtitled)
- Ripley's Home Video (2009) (Italy) (DVD) (subtitled)
- Shout! Factory (2014) (United States) (Blu-ray) (DVD) (subtitled)
- BFI Video (2014) (United Kingdom) (DVD) (subtitled)
- Ripley's Film (2003) (Italy)
- VIGGO (2020) (Italy)
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Plot Summary |
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.
Written by Erik Gregersen |
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Did You Know?
Movie Connections | Featured in I Am My Films (1978). See more » |