Not Rated
1971    84mDocumentary
7.986%88%7.4
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.
Directed by Werner Herzog
  • Fini Straubinger
  • Heinrich Fleischmann
  • Vladimir Kokol
  • M. Baaske
  • Resi Mittermeier
  • Rolf IlligVoice
  • Werner HerzogDirector / Screenplay / Producer
  • Jörg Schmidt-ReitweinDirector Of Photography
  • Beate Mainka-JellinghausEditor
  • John OrnoskyFebruary 6, 2026
    The compassion and empathy expressed are astonishing, I'm ashamed and humbled. I see how blind I am with working eyes and how ignorant I am with hearing ears. A beautiful snapshot, though 55 years old, as valuable today as it was in 71.

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