Land of Silence and Darkness
Land of Silence and Darkness

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Land of Silence and Darkness

Amazon Prime Video
Amazon Prime Video
Criterion Channel
Criterion Channel
Fandor
Fandor
Philo
Philo
7.4(71 votes)
1973
1h 25m
Documentary
deaf-mutedeafacceptancestruggle for independenceobservational documentarysocial acceptanceself acceptancedeafnessdeaf culturedeaf and blind

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.

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