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Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since adolescence, and her work on behalf of other deaf and blind people, this film shows how the deaf and blind struggle to understand and accept a world from which they are almost wholly isolated.

From Vogel’s Film as a Subversive Art:
Herzog’s magisterial magnificence comes into fuller focus with this “documentary” which reveals new facets of his creative genius. If Signs of Life and Even Dwarfs Started Small are secret works, hiding his true intentions, and if the brutally sardonic, metaphysical Fata Morgana reveals them, this unbearably moving account of the lives of the deaf-and-blind confirms Herzog as a mysterious new humanist of the 1970s, light-years removed from the sentimentality of the Italian neo-realists and the simplistic propaganda of untalented documentary film radicals. When a deaf-and-blind man, living in total “darkness and silence”, first gingerly touches a leaf, a branch, a tree, and finally enfolds its trunk in a wordless and sensuous embrace, we are in the presence of the true suffering (and hope) of humanity and the true genius of a great filmmaker.

1.63GB | 1 h 24 min | 780×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/583B2F6C48DF4F6/Werner_Herzog,_Land_of_Silence_and_Darkness_(1971)_-_BluRay_576p.mkv

Language(s):German
Subtitles:English

The post Werner Herzog – Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit AKA Land of Silence and Darkness (1971) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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This moving documentary by director Werner Herzog enters into the world of Fini Strabinger of Bavaria, who is both deaf and blind. Fini has made a career of helping others who are similarly afflicted, teaching them sign language and taking them on field trips to gardens and touching zoos. Told in an unaffected, homey style, this film uses a minimum of narration as it movingly explores the lives of these people. One of the film’s highlights is footage showing Fini’s reactions to her first airplane flight.

6.56GB | 1 h 24 min | 1460×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/75668FE1F87DA0B/Land_of_Silence_and_Darkness_(1971).mkv

Language:German
Subtitles:English

The post Werner Herzog – Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit AKA Land of Silence and Darkness (1971) (HD) first appeared on Cinema of the World.