Movie

A Quiet Monastery

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.

Director

Владимир Эйснер

Status

Released

Release date

08/07/1992

Original language

Russian