Book of Days (1989)
75 min
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.
- Release date
- October 1, 1989
- Country of origin
- United States, France
- Music
- Meredith Monk
Soundtrack
Original scoreBook Of Days1990 · 14 tracks
- Early Morning Melodyinstrumental1:28
- Travelers 1, 2, 3instrumental2:31
- Dawninstrumental3:18
- Travelers 4/Churchyard Entertainmentinstrumental6:34
- Afternoon Melodiesinstrumental4:46
- Fields/Cloudsinstrumental2:21
- Duskinstrumental2:31
- Eva's Songinstrumental0:48
- Eveninginstrumental2:51
- Travelers 5instrumental1:55
- Jewish Storyteller/Dance/Dreaminstrumental4:54
- Plagueinstrumental3:10
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
- Pablo Vela as Jewish Grandfather
Crew
- Meredith Monk · Director
- Tone Blevins · Writer
- Meredith Monk · Writer
- Dominique Lasseur · Producer
- Catherine Tatge · Producer
- Meredith Monk · Composer
- Jerry Pantzer · Cinematographer
- Girish Bhargava · Editor