Merton: A Film Biography (1984)
57m
Running Time
January 1, 1984Release Date
Merton: A Film Biography (1984)
57m
Running Time
January 1, 1984Release Date
Plot.
In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social criticism. For nearly 27 years he was a monk of the austere Trappist order, where he became an eloquent spiritual writer and mystic as well as an anti-war advocate and witness to peace. Merton: A Film Biography provides the first comprehensive look at this remarkable 20th century religious philosopher who wrote, in addition to his immensely popular autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain, over 60 books on some of the most pressing social issues of our time, some of which are excerpted here. Merton offers an engaging profile of a man whose presence in the world touched millions of people and whose words and thoughts continue to have a profound impact and relevance today.
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Cast & Crew.

Alexander Scourby
Narrator (voice)

Gregory Abels
Thomas Merton (voice)

John Barber
Self

Jim Forest
Self - Int. Fellowship of Reconciliation

Robert Lax
Self

John Eudes Bamberger
Self - Scholastic under Merton

Flavian Burns
Self - Scholastic under Merton

Robert Giroux
Self - Publisher

Naomi Burton Stone
Self

James Laughlin
Self - Publisher, New Directions

Jean Jadot
Self - Vatican Secretariat for Non-Christians

Ernesto Cardenal
Self - Nicaraguan Minister of Culture; Novice under Merton

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Self - Poet

W. H. Ferry
Self

Mary Luke Tobin
Self

Joan Baez
Self

Maurice Flood
Self - Monk of Gethsemani

Thích Nhất Hạnh
Self - Buddhist Monk

Rembert Weakland
Self - Benedictine Monk

Jean Leclercq
Self - Benedictine Monk

Tenzin Gyatso
Self - The Dalai Lama

Paul Wilkes
Director / Writer / Producer

Zina Voynow
Editor / Assistant Director

Barbara Zahm
Sound

Audrey Laurine Glynn
Producer

Mary Sweeney
Associate Editor

David Eubank
Assistant Camera

Tom Hurwitz
Director of Photography

Kristina Borjesson
Production Manager / Researcher

Frederick Iannone
Assistant Camera

Gary Becker
Animation

Lee Dichter
Sound Mixer

Gary Gasgarth
Sound Editor
Details.
This Movie Is About.
monk
mystic
hermit
dalai lama
poet
anti-nuclear activist
writer
catholic
radical
pacifist
radical politics
modern prophets
controversial artist
mysticism
spiritual teachers
monasticism
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