Queye TV Merton: A Film Biography
Documentary
Merton: A Film Biography
1984
0:57
★ 7.8
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.

Cast

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

Crew

Tom Hurwitz

Director of Photography

Paul Wilkes

Producer

Paul Wilkes

Writer

Kristina Borjesson

Production Manager

Frederick Iannone

Assistant Camera

Paul Wilkes

Director

Barbara Zahm

Sound

Mary Sweeney

Associate Editor

David Eubank

Assistant Camera

Audrey Laurine Glynn

Producer

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