Into Great Silence (German: Die große Stille) is a 2005 documentary film directed by Philip Gröning.
An international co-production between France, Switzerland and Germany, it is an intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, a monastery high in the French Alps (Chartreuse Mountains).
Gröning proposed the idea for the film to the monks in 1984, but the Carthusians said they wanted time to think about it.
Gröning then came alone to live at the monastery, and to stay in the enclosure, where except for the order's aspirants no visitors are allowed, for a total of six months in 2002 and 2003.
It consists of images and sounds that depict the rhythm of monastic life, with occasional intertitles displaying selections from Holy Scripture.