MERTON: A FILM BIOGRAPHY
Directed by Paul Wilkes
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.
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
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