Book of Days (1989)

  • NR
  • 10/01/1989 (US)
  • Drama
  • 1h 14m

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.

Meredith Monk

Director, Screenplay

Tone Blevins

Screenplay

Cast

Robert Een's headshot

Robert Een

Soldier
Donna M. Fields's headshot

Donna M. Fields

Tribeswoman
Wayne Hankin's headshot

Wayne Hankin

Traveling Storyteller
Lanny Harrison's headshot

Lanny Harrison

Jewish Mother
Lucas Hoving's headshot

Lucas Hoving

Physician
Karen Levitas's headshot

Karen Levitas

Jewish Elder Daughter
Rob McBrien's headshot

Rob McBrien

Dance of Death
Meredith Monk's headshot

Meredith Monk

Madwoman

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