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'Land of Silence and Darkness' is particularly close to my heart; if it didn't exist there would be a hole in my life. Fini Straubinger – the fifty-six-year-old deaf and blind woman at the centre of the film – helped me understand something about loneliness to an extent I never had before … The film is about the terror of sometimes not being able to make ourselves understood, and our subsequent isolation. - Werner Herzog

Land of Silence and Darkness i remains perhaps the most deeply affecting work director Werner Herzog has crafted. The film centres on the work of Fini Straubringer, a woman who became deaf and blind in her childhood, and her tireless quest to provide company and education to people who were born without sight or hearing. Herzog follows Straubringer as she visits various people and communicates with them through the touching of their hands. It is a moving and empathetic portrait of tireless work and the loneliness that comes from being unable to express oneself.