Land of Silence and Darkness
Oct 08 1971
•1h 25m
•Documentary
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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Fini Straubinger
Heinrich Fleischmann
Vladimir Kokol
M. Baaske
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