Die große Stille (2005)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.1/10   

Director:

Philip Gröning

Guionista:

Philip Gröning (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

10 noviembre 2005 (Alemania)

Género:

Documental

Frase comercial:

A unique, transcendent and transporting cinematic event

Plot:

An examination of life inside the Grande Chartreuse, the head monastery of the reclusive Carthusian Order in France. |

Plot Keywords:

Monastery | Haircut | No Music Score | Ritual | Christian Theme

Premios:

5 wins & 3 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A long contemplative documentary on monastic life

Dirigida por
Philip Gröning

Créditos del guión (en orden alfabético)
Philip Gröning		writer

Producida por
Frank Evers	....	co-producer
Philip Gröning	....	executive producer
Philip Gröning	....	producer
Elda Guidinetti	....	producer
Andres Pfäffli	....	producer
Jörg Schulze	....	co-producer
Jörg Schulze	....	executive producer
Michael Stricker	....	executive producer
Michael Weber	....	producer

Música original por
Michael Busch
Philip Gröning

Fotografía por
Philip Gröning

Montaje por
Philip Gröning

Dirección de producción
Stefan Ciupek	....	post-production supervisor

Departamento de sonido
Michael Busch	....	original sound
Michael Busch	....	sound producer
Peter Crooks	....	sound editor
Samir Foco	....	sound editor
Philip Gröning	....	original sound
Philip Gröning	....	sound editor
Philip Gröning	....	sound
Michael Hinreiner	....	sound editor
Michael Hinreiner	....	sound effects editor
Benedikt Just	....	sound editor
Michael Kranz	....	sound mixer
Benjamin Rosenkind	....	sound re-recording mixer

Visual Effects
Stefan Andemann	....	colourist

Departamento de Edición
Debora Neumann	....	post-production coordinator

Otros miembros del equipo
Karl Riedl	....	creative editing advisor

Gracias
Christian Colmorgen	....	thanks
Henning Kamm	....	thanks
Dieter Kosslick	....	thanks
Frank Kruse	....	thanks
Michael Schmid-Ospach	....	thanks

Compañías Productores

• Arte
• Bavaria-Filmkunst Verleih
• Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR)
• Cine Plus
• Philip-Gröning-Filmproduktion
• Televisione Svizzera Italiana (TSI)
• Ventura Film
• Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)

Distribuidores

• X Verleih AG (2005) (Germany) (theatrical)
• Warner Home Video (2006) (Germany) (DVD)
• Frenetic Films (2005) (Switzerland) (theatrical)
• Warner Home Video (2006) (Switzerland) (DVD)
• Cinemien (2006) (Belgium) (theatrical)
• Cinemien (2006) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Diaphana Films (2006) (France) (theatrical)
• Homescreen (2006) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Karma Films (2006) (Spain) (theatrical)
• Metacinema (2006) (Italy) (theatrical)
• Soda Pictures (2007) (UK) (theatrical)
• Yleisradio (YLE) (2007) (Finland) (TV)
• Zeitgeist Films (2006) (USA) (theatrical)
• Zeitgeist Films (2007) (USA) (all media)

También conocida como:

Into Great Silence (International: English title)
Le grand silence (France)
Dentro del gran silencio (Argentina) (festival title) [es]
El gran silencio (Mexico) [es]

Duración:

169 min | Canada:164 min (Toronto International Film Festival)

País:

France | Switzerland | Alemania

Idioma:

Inglés | Francés | Latin

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | UK:U | Germany:o.Al. | Portugal:M/6 | Argentina:Atp

Locaciones de Filmación:

Grande Chartreuse, Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse, Isère, France

Compañía:

Arte

Citas:

Intertitle Card (repeated line): Anyone who does not give up all he has cannot be my disciple.

A long contemplative documentary on monastic life

Winter, spring, summer, fall...and winter. No, this is not the quasi-eponymous Korean movie. It is the period of time over which the film was shot, around 2002. It is a documentary on the Grande Chartreuse cloister situated in a deep valley above the city of Grenoble, France. A couple of dozen monks live there. There are novices on probation and seniors long having made their vow of permanent ascetic life. The rhythm of their daily cloistered routines is the backbone of the film: frequent prayers, meals eaten alone in individual private apartments, execution of assigned chores, etc. From Monday to Saturday few words are exchanged. The only sounds are those of human movement, work activities, church bells and chirps from the surrounding forest. The only music to be heard is that of liturgical evening chants.

Not every aspect of monastic life is covered. As the director explains, this is not an informational film. It is a long contemplation on ascetic life. It may seem too long after two hours. The tedious repetitiveness is purposeful however. Even on-the-screen quotes are shown multiple times throughout the movie accentuating that repetitiveness. It is enough to convince us that it takes a special individual to commit to such constrained existence, one modulated only by the moods of the seasons. We are presented with snapshots of odd moments: monks frolicking in the snow; preparing a vegetable garden for spring seeding; a summer Sunday outing when monks are free to socialize and, on this day, they discuss the appropriateness of washing one's hands before meals (a contrarian monk has a simple solution: don't get your hands dirty).

Despite the isolation, there are signs the outside world is not too far. Fruits are served with supermarket produce number stickers still attached, correspondence and bills arrive and managed with a laptop computer (no evidence of an Internet connection), and some of the tools are distinctly modern.

It's a quiet film. Too long and soporific for some, possibly inspiring to others. What stayed with me after watching 162 minutes of this is the plain beauty of the cloister and the reminder of a life style that we may have thought extinct in the West.