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Synopsis

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.

Year1971
CountryGermany
Cinematic Threads
I also think Herzog, who is a documentary director I admire greatly, in particular his early work like Fata Morgana, Land of Silence and Darkness, and The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, has a way of approaching subjects in his documentaries that is very much about entering a dream space and a mythic space. His non-fiction is poetry in the guise of non-fiction. It’s always an exploration of the unconscious, of dreams, of myths. And that resonates deeply with what I try to do, especially in