Book of Days

Book of Days

74 mins | Drama | Oct. 1, 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.

Book of Days

74 mins | Drama | Oct. 1, 1989

Book of Days
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.
IMDb rating 7.7
Producers La Sept Cinéma, Alive From Off Center, The House Foundation for the Arts
Original title Book of Days
Directors Meredith Monk
Writers Tone Blevins, Meredith Monk

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

Rob McBrien

as Dance of Death

Meredith Monk

as Madwoman

Toby Newman

as Jewish Girl