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Essene

  • November 1972
  • 1hr

    26mins

  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Frederick Wiseman,

    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.