6:40 mins., b&w, silent – intertitles in French
Production : Pathé
Source : Gaumont-Pathé Archives, catalogue no. PR 1929 22 2
A simple descriptive film showing a few scenes from the life of a group of monks at an unspecified pagoda in Cambodia.
After some preliminary shots of pagodas, the monks are shown bathing in the water of a holy pool, eating a frugal meal of rice and praying. In one of the longest sequences, cutting from wide to close, a young monk is shown using a steel scalpel to incise holy texts on a small rectangular sheet of tin. This is then tied together with others to make a sort of book.
The film ends with a series of portraits of individual monks, suggesting in an intertitle that the peace and tranquility of their life has left on the faces of the older monks, ‘the imprint of a gentle philosophy’.
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