In the land of the deaf [videorecording] = Le pays des sourds / un film de Nicolas Philibert ; une production les Films d'ici, la Sept-Cinema, le Centre Europeen Cinematographique Rhone-Alpes ; producteur délégué, Serge Lalou ; producer, Thierry Roisin.
Documentary. Title taken from disc cover. Originally released as a motion picture in 1992. Featuring Jean-Claude Poulain.
Summary:
A documentary that takes the viewer into the land of the deaf, a world of silence inhabited by an estimated 130 million people worldwide. The filmmaker portrays the difficulties and joys of being deaf, offering portraits of a charismatic sign language teacher, a woman forced into a mental ward as a teen, a young man who remembers the first horrifying experience of using a hearing aid, and a deaf couple's marriage.
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