Drama · France · 1989 · 1h 14m

Book of Days

Director

Cast

Robert Een as Soldier Donna M. Fields as Tribeswoman Wayne Hankin as Traveling Storyteller Lanny Harrison as Jewish Mother Lucas Hoving as Physician Karen Levitas as Jewish Elder Daughter

Crew

Girish Bhargava — Editor Meredith Monk — Screenplay Tone Blevins — Screenplay Dominique Lasseur — Producer Catherine Tatge — Producer

Synopsis

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.

Key Collaborators

Meredith Monk Director Girish Bhargava Editor Meredith Monk Screenplay Tone Blevins Screenplay Dominique Lasseur Producer Catherine Tatge Producer

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