03 Oct 2003
The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone
An attempt to create a bridge between the different political positions that coexist, sometimes violently, in the Basque Country, in northern Spain.
Merton: A Film Biography
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.
Top Billed Cast
Alexander Scourby Narrator (voice)
Gregory Abels Thomas Merton (voice)
John Barber Self
Jim Forest Self - Int. Fellowship of Reconciliation
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
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