Virtually Silent Film about Carthusian Monks a Surprise Hit in Germany

By Hilary White
BERLIN, February 9, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) -

A virtually silent film about silent monks in an ancient French monastery is proving a surprise hit with German audiences, the BBC reports. With no dialogue, no script or voiceover and only Gregorian chant as background music, Into Great Silence is an unusual documentary of the daily lives of the monks of Le Grande Chartreuse, the extremely remote original foundation in the French Alps, of the Catholic Church’s most rigorous religious order, the Carthusians.
The film depicting this devoted and austere life has the highly secularized German audiences spellbound and is playing to packed houses. It has hit a benchmark in Germany with over 100,000 viewers. The film was featured at Berlin’s Film Festival and was awarded the World Cinema Special Jury prize at the Sundance festival...

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