Into Great Silence

An extraordinary, meditative, one-of-a-kind cinematic experience.

Filmmaker Philip Groening waited 13 years to be granted access to the monastery of the Grand Chartreuse in the French Alps near Grenoble, where he filmed the daily life of the Carthusian monks over one year.

Into Great Silence, dir Philip Groening, Germany 2006, 164 mins, subtitles