The Silent Order
MovieTitle | The Silent Order |
User score | 0 |
Release date | Jul 20, 1951 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | George Fleischmann |
Production country | Ireland, United Kingdom |
Run time | 11 min. |
Filmed shortly after World War II," The Silent Order" records the lives of Trappist monks living inside the 12th-century Monastery of the Holy Cross, Roscrea, County Tipperary, as they quietly go about their business as farmers, scholars, artists, and writers—evoking 10 centuries of a shifting social, political, and religious landscape in the heart of Ireland.