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Merton: A Film Biography

Merton: A Film Biography

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Merton: A Film Biography

1984
0h 57m
8.0(1 votes)
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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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Alexander Scourby

Narrator (voice)

Alexander Scourby
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Gregory Abels

Thomas Merton (voice)

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John Barber

Self

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Jim Forest

Self - Int. Fellowship of Reconciliation

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Robert Lax

Self

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John Eudes Bamberger

Self - Scholastic under Merton

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Flavian Burns

Self - Scholastic under Merton

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Robert Giroux

Self - Publisher

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Naomi Burton Stone

Self

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James Laughlin

Self - Publisher, New Directions

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Jean Jadot

Self - Vatican Secretariat for Non-Christians

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Ernesto Cardenal

Self - Nicaraguan Minister of Culture; Novice under Merton

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Self - Poet

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W. H. Ferry

Self

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Mary Luke Tobin

Self

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Joan Baez

Self

Joan Baez
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Maurice Flood

Self - Monk of Gethsemani

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Thích Nhất Hạnh

Self - Buddhist Monk

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Rembert Weakland

Self - Benedictine Monk

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Jean Leclercq

Self - Benedictine Monk

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Tenzin Gyatso

Self - The Dalai Lama

Tenzin Gyatso

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