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Germany 2005, 167 min
by Philip Gröning

Silence at the movies pays, and that profound and engrossing variety of German documentary Into Great Silence (Die Grosse Stille), by Philip Groening (who produced the film with Bavaria Film and Swiss company Ventura Films), won the hearts of jury members of the World Cinema Documentary Section at the Sundance Festival, who bestowed upon it a Special Jury Prize.(Camillo De Marco / Cineuropa)Deep in the French Alps lies La Grande Chartreuse, one of the world’s most ascetic monasteries. In 1984, t