"At first the subject of Werner Herzog's Land of Silence and Darkness seems intimidating: a documentary on the world of those who are both deaf and blind. The results, however, completely defeat one's expectations, for the film is neither morbidly depressing nor heartwarmingly uplifting. The central character is Fini Straubinger, a remarkable 56-year-old deaf-blind woman who travels all over Germany to act as a consultant and morale-booster for her fellow inhabitants of the land of silence and darkness. Through Fini we are introduced into the world of the deaf-blind, an existence so intense and abstract that at times it seems to produce unconscious poetry." --New Yorker Films