Description: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 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. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi... (more)(less)
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Sitä ehdottomasti parempaa Herzogia 70-luvun kultaisilta vuosilta. Werner tutkailee kuurosokeiden elämää ja nostaa esiin hyvin mielenkiintoisia kysymyksiä ihmisyydestä ja sen rajoista. Keskiössä oleva mummeli on ihmeellinen tapaus: 30 vuotta masentuneena sängyssä makaamista, kunnes koitti hetki jolloin kyllästyminen ja yleinen vitutus pakotti nousemaan ylös ja auttamaan muita samassa jamassa olevia kuurosokeita.
Näihin, hivenen onnettomamman oloisiin tapauksiin, verr"
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"Ignorance is bliss, they say. But what if you are deaf blind and the only way to experience the world is touching? Land of Silence and Darkness tells the amazing story of Fini Straubinger, deaf blind herself yet she manages to operate as an instructor to other deaf blinds and tries to teach them deaf blind alphabets. She describes deafness not as a complete silence but there is a little ringing sound inside your head. Blindness is not complete darkness, you can see different colors. It's like Go"
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