A Quiet Monastery

A Quiet Monastery (1992)

Тихая обитель

“Even someone who is not an actor acts while on set, though he is playing himself,” Eisner says in an interview. “A Quiet Monastery” is such a documentary performance. The performer is Bardiashvili, a watchman who looks into the camera with a gap-toothed smile and issues one piece of “everyday wisdom” after another. His stage is the construction site he guards and his native town, both resembling a post-apocalyptic landscape.

Date of release
1992-07-08
Runtime
30m
Director
Vladimir Eisner

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