Land of Silence and Darkness

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.

Land of Silence and Darkness is a 1980 documentary movie directed by Werner Herzog, starring Heinrich Fleischmann, Fini Straubinger, Elsa Fehrer. It holds an IMDb rating of 7.9/10 from 3,589 votes and runs 1h 25m.