LAND OF SILENCE AND DARKNESS
Werner Herzog, West Germany, 1971, Shout! Factory, Docs"…Touches on the larger question of what it means to be human.” - The Parallax View
In one of his most stunningly poignant documentary masterworks, Werner Herzog examines the life of Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since her teens. Through her work on behalf of other deaf-blind people, this film shows how this marginalized faction of society struggle to understand and accept a world from which they are almost wholly isolated. Legitimately essential.