Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit

1971 [GERMAN]

Action / Documentary

15
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 86% · 7 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 88% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.9/10 10 3637 3.6K

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Werner Herzog Photo
Werner Herzog

Top cast

Rolf Illig Photo
Rolf Illig as Narrator
Fini Straubinger Photo
Fini Straubinger as Self
M. Baaske Photo
M. Baaske as
Elsa Fehrer Photo
Elsa Fehrer as Self
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776.7 MB
978*720
German 2.0
Not Rated
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 24 min
Seeds 2
1.41 GB
1456*1072
German 2.0
Not Rated
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 24 min
Seeds 16

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by R T 10 / 10

Unimaginably complex and significant film. What binds the

Unimaginably complex and significant film. What binds the senses to ideas of self, of thought and ideas? All this is present in one of Herzog's greatest, and arguably most underrated films of the 1970's.
Reviewed by R T 7 / 10

One of Herzog's first documentaries and naturally an

One of Herzog's first documentaries and naturally an unorthodox one. We befriend Fini Straubinger - a deaf and blind old lady that knows a whole lot about how to communicate and teach people who share her disability. Herzog is not as present here as he often is in his later docus, but it's not needed. The people on screen does the magic by themselves. It's very fascinating and often poetic as people on screen give away some words and some lines are written on screen "If there's a new World War, I would not even know" is omne that sticks with me. This is a sad film in many ways as people here lives almost totally isolated from the world as we know it. On another note it's very heartwarming to see all the people tutoring and helping out to make they're lives a whole lot better. No one could make a film like this other than Herzog, and his eye for making docus about unique, fraguile or weird things has always been present. 7.5 out of 10 cactuses.
Reviewed by Leaburn O 7 / 10

Better than the story of Helen Keller, this

Better than the story of Helen Keller, this Herzog documentary goes unflinchingly to the heart of the tragedy of those trapped in a world of silence and deafness. Some of these cases make you question what it is to be human and how terrifying life would be without the ability to communicate or understand what is happening around you. A hard watch. I saw this on YouTube.
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