Film

Book of Days

8.219891h 14mNRDrama

Age rating: NR
Director: Meredith Monk
Year: 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.

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

Toby Newman

Jewish Girl

Directed by

Meredith Monk

Written by

Meredith Monk, Tone Blevins

Produced by

Catherine Tatge, Dominique Lasseur