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Book of Days
1989 8.3 (7 votes) 1h 14m
Genres
Drama
Production Companies
Alive From Off Center
The House Foundation for the Arts
La Sept Cinéma

Book of Days

Overview

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 Crew

Director: Meredith Monk

Screenplay: Meredith Monk, Tone Blevins

Producer: Catherine Tatge, Dominique Lasseur

Top Cast

Robert Een

Soldier

Donna M. Fields

Tribeswoman

Wayne Hankin

Traveling Storyteller

Lanny Harrison

Jewish Mother

Lucas Hoving

Physician

Karen Levitas

Jewish Elder Daughter

Rob McBrien

Dance of Death

Meredith Monk

Madwoman

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