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.

Movie rating: 7.9 / 10 (3331)

Directed by: Werner Herzog

Writer credits: Werner Herzog

Cast: Fini Straubinger - M. Baaske - Elsa Fehrer - Heinrich Fleischmann - Rolf Illig

AKA: Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit, A Life Without Words

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