Land of Silence and Darkness

A quiet, immersive documentary that invites you to experience the world through touch and patience, leaving a lasting sense of human resilience.

Directed by

Werner Herzog

Genres

Documentary

Starring

Fini Straubinger, Heinrich Fleischmann, Vladimir Kokol

Overview

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.

How it feels

Melancholic, earnest and warm. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Isolation, identity, family, healing

Content

No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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