Werner Herzog -- Land of silence and darkness 1971 extract

Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who turned deaf and blind early in her life, 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. This scene shows how deaf-blind Harald has learned to follow his teacher into the pool. It took Harald over a year to overcome his fear of water. Fini is the grey headed woman in the back of the pool who is being described the scene on the palm of her hand.

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Film & Animation

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• herzog
• silence
• darkness
• schweigens
• dunkelheit
• harald

[stevesoxx]

Amazing! I love the dedicated folks who work with these fellas! Bless them much..

[Drakon222]

Go loling somewhere else.

[ThePatrycjas]

you know what is especially beautiful about this video?

that we all laugh the same way, regardless of being a hearing person or not...

(I mean the part when his taking a shower)

[petlover736]

They did right thing to show and to be taught to training them to be independent living till graduated or old enough to be with deaf and Blind people so they will be put and open to the public to expose and enviroment.

[bumspew]

@kingcrimson234 you suck at trolling

[captainLAGER]

Was für ein aufopfernder Lehrer. Mein größter Respekt.

[tzuhanyeh]

you should shame about yourself being a human, what a waste to let you have ability to see and hear.

[arthurj732]

Great film. A small amount of time can bring a good memory.

[PAPASCROTUM345]

sucks for him

[althaushexe]

kingcrimson. Either you're a very stupid person - or very strange!

[kingcrimson234]

probably not seeing or hearing anything.