Land of Silence and Darkness (1971)
• October 8th, 1971 • 1h 25min
Documentary
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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