Land of Silence and Darkness (1971)

Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit

85 min★ 7.9 · 3,640 votes

• Documentary

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.

Release date

June 12, 1972

Country of origin

Germany