Films by Frank Suffert

Germany 2010, 26 min
by Frank Suffert

A Capuchin monastery in the Alps: Irdning, Austria. Only three brothers are left. The youngest is 56, the oldest 87. They try to keep the monastery alive. The big problem of recruiting new monks forces many monasteries to close. But Brother Rudolf, the youngest, had an epiphanyic experience, which lead to the ultimately rescue of the monastery. The ‘prayer of the heart’ - Exerzitien, where Rudolph practices a very ‘modern’ form of the traditional catholic prayer, including 10 days absolute silen