ESSENE

By Frederick WISEMAN

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Documentary - Completed 1972


Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2024
TIFF Classics
    • Year of production
    • 1972
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • USA
    • Director(s)
    • Frederick WISEMAN
    • Synopsis
    • Essene is about daily life in a Benedictine monastery and the resolution of conflict between personal needs and the institutional and 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, work, worship, values, love, and play.