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MONK OF THE SEA

MNICH Z MORZA

By Rafał SKALSKI

CENTRALA FILM - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2016

Thailand. A young, twenty-something-year-old student leads a very entertaining life full of parties. One day, just like 70% of men in his country, he decides to become a short-term monk. Ball has two weeks to find his peace and achieve his goal but the whole world seems to be distracting him.

- Year of production
- 2016
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- POLAND, GERMANY
- Languages
- THAI
- Duration
- 69 mn
- Director(s)
- Rafał SKALSKI
- Writer(s)
- Rafał SKALSKI
- Producer(s)
- Agnieszka JANOWSKA (CENTRALA FILM), Jacek NAGŁOWSKI (CENTRALA FILM), Paweł KOSUŃ (CENTRALA FILM)
- Synopsis
- Thailand. Ball, thirty-year-old corporate guy, leads a very entertaining life full of parties. One day, he decides to become a short-term buddhist monk. So says Thai tradition. For Thai people going to the monastery is equal to a kind of initiation. In the watt Thai men become real men. Ball hopes to find his life goal within 15 days. This is how long he is about to stay in an unusual monastery surrounded by water, where he will be ordained, and where he will meet charismatic Abbot.