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Daily life inside a Benedictine monastery. The resolution of conflict between personal needs and the institutional, organizational priorities of the community. Daily life inside a Benedictine monastery. The 86-minute documentary explores the resolution of conflict between personal needs and the institutional, organizational priorities of the community. In the Order, where the focus of life is the relationship of individual work and worship to the community as a whole, the brethren must cope with the same issues that arise in any community : rules and regulations, work, worship, values, love, and play.

Keywords

  • Meisterwerke der 70er
  • Frederick Wiseman

Director

  • Frederick Wiseman

Dokus


1h 26min


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EN


FR

United States
1972
Daily life inside a Benedictine monastery. The resolution of conflict between personal needs and the institutional, organizational priorities of the community.

Daily life inside a Benedictine monastery. The resolution of conflict between personal needs and the institutional, organizational priorities of the community.


Daily life inside a Benedictine monastery. The 86-minute documentary explores the resolution of conflict between personal needs and the institutional, organizational priorities of the community. In the Order, where the focus of life is the relationship of individual work and worship to the community as a whole, the brethren must cope with the same issues that arise in any community : rules and regulations, work, worship, values, love, and play.

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