Land of Silence and Darkness

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Movie
Original title Land of Silence and Darkness
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1971
length 85 minutes
Rod
Director Werner Herzog
script Werner Herzog
production Werner Herzog
music Johann Sebastian Bach , Antonio Vivaldi
occupation

Land of Silence and Darkness is a documentary film by Werner Herzog from 1971. The film deals with the life situation of deaf-blind people by accompanying and portraying some of them as examples. While filming Disabled Future , Herzog met the deaf-blind Fini Straubinger, who is the protagonist in Land of Silence and Darkness . The film was shot in Hanover and Munich.

action

The film mainly documents the life of Fini Straubinger, who was 56-year-old deaf-blind at the time, who gradually went blind as a teenager as a result of a fall in childhood at the age of 15 and later became deaf at the age of 18. Her journey with an airplane, meetings with others in the deafblind community and their exchange about life with their disability by means of Lormen are shown , but also trips to the botanical garden in Munich and Straubinger's constant care for other deafblind people during their regular visits with them. The documentation gives an insight into the life of deaf-blind children in a home, who - unlike Straubinger - cannot make themselves understood through language and the isolation and loneliness associated with this disability. Subtitles with quotes, partly by Fini Straubinger or Werner Herzog, separate the individual episodes from each other.

"'Shocking' through close observation, designed with empathy and caution."

- Lexicon of international film

Festivals

The film was shown at several film festivals:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Land of Silence and Darkness. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 1, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used