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DVD

Land of silence and darkness

Call Number

  • DVD 921 S8997L (CEN)

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Publication Information

[New York, N.Y.] : New Yorker Video, 2005.

Physical Description

1 videodisc (81 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

Through examining Fini Straubinger, a 56-year-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.

Notes

DVD format.

Videodisc release of the 1971 documentary film.

Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

In German with optional English subtitles.

Directed by Werner Herzog.

Subjects