Land of Silence and Darkness
1971 · 85 MIN · IMDB 7.9 · 3,324 VOTES · DIR. Werner Herzog
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 540 lines
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00:00:03 I see before me a road...
00:02:53 I was amazed by its size.
00:04:58 Also European animals: Goats, stags, hares...
00:09:51 I sat down and prayed:
00:11:32 My eyes hurt very much.
00:13:15 And when they came, they talked to my mother...
00:15:18 You often see all kinds of colors.
00:17:16 Mr. Hundhammer?
00:20:02 When others have fun...
00:22:47 It's like a column.
00:26:22 It will be January...
00:28:27 The other river, coming from the other side...
00:30:22 lives in a neurological clinic.
00:32:49 Blind...
00:37:59 In fact this is all about...
00:40:48 It's a system of dashes and dots.
00:42:25 He only speaks his dialect.
00:45:50 I don't see anything.
00:49:52 It was very hard to give him the habit...
00:51:50 about two years ago.
00:59:46 they can't be taught abstract ideas.
01:08:54 That is a radio.
01:13:39 that he forgot how to speak and write.
01:15:51 Not even his own brothers?
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed540
Dialogue density6.4 lines / min
First line00:00:03
Final line01:15:51
Production Record
DirectorWerner Herzog
LanguageGerman
IMDb votes3,324