Land of Silence and Darkness

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.

Cast

Fini Straubinger

Heinrich Fleischmann

Vladimir Kokol

M. Baaske

Resi Mittermeier

Rolf Illig

Voice

Crew

Werner Herzog

Director

Werner Herzog

Screenplay

Werner Herzog

Producer

Werner Herzog

Sound Recordist

Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus

Editor

Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein

Director of Photography