Un Petit monastère en Toscane

Caltenuovo del Abate is a small Toscan village. Five Augustinians monks arrived from France five years ago with the ambition of restoring the monastery. There is a strong contrast from their severe world to that of the peasants and of the Chianti owners. “One can consider this documentary as the travel diary of a stranger in Italy, based on the impression he collected and listed in his mind next to events he lived before, without the pretention of discovering this country’s objectivity. I liked Toscan a lot, and I think that a look from afresh is always interesting. I couldn’t make a documentary on my country : I know it too well”. (Otar Iosseliani)