Book of Days (1989)
This film is a rich and haunting reinvention of medieval life that never loses its contemporary perspective. When the plague afflicts a village, this world seems to go up in an apocalypse of hatred and disease that presages our own century.
Director:
Meredith Monk
Writers:
Meredith Monk, Tone Blevins.
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Robert Een as Soldier |
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Donna M. Fields as Tribeswoman |
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Wayne Hankin as Traveling Storyteller |
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Lanny Harrison as Jewish Mother |
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Lucas Hoving as Physician |
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Karen Levitas as Jewish Elder Daughter |
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Rob McBrien as Dance of Death |
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Meredith Monk as Madwoman |
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Toby Newman as Jewish Girl |
| Directing | Meredith Monk | Director |
| Writing | Meredith Monk | Screenplay |
| Sound | Meredith Monk | Music |
| Crew | Jerry Pantzer | Cinematography |
| Production | Amy Schatz | Associate Producer |
| Production | Catherine Tatge | Producer |
| Production | Dominique Lasseur | Producer |
| Writing | Tone Blevins | Screenplay |
| Editing | Girish Bhargava | Editor |