Merton: A Film Biography

1984, documentary

57 minutes

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...

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Cast

Alexander Scourby

Alexander Scourby

Narrator (voice)

Gregory Abels

Thomas Merton (voice)

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

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

Joan Baez

Joan Baez

Self

Maurice Flood

Self - Monk of Gethsemani

Thích Nhất Hạnh

Self - Buddhist Monk

Archbishop Rembert Weakland

Self - Benedictine Monk

Jean Leclercq

Self - Benedictine Monk

Tenzin Gyatso

Tenzin Gyatso

Self - The Dalai Lama

Crew

Camera

Directing

Paul Wilkes

Director

Editing

Zina Voynow

Editor

Production

Paul Wilkes

Producer

Sound

Writing

Paul Wilkes

Writer

Visual effects

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