The Ornament of the World (2019)
Filmed in Cordoba, Granada, Seville, and Toledo, this documentary retraces the 800-year period in medieval Spain when Muslims, Christians, and Jews forged a common cultural identity that frequently transcended their religious differences, revealing what made this rare and fruitful collaboration possible, and what ultimately tore it apart.
- Released
- 2019-11-19
- Genres
- Documentary, History
- Runtime
- 116 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Michael Schwarz
- TMDB rating
- 7.8/10 from 4 votes
Cast
- Reuven Firestone as Himself (Hebrew Union College)
- David Levering Lewis as Himself (New York University)
- Jerrilynn D. Dodds as Herself (Sarah Lawrence College)
- Frank Peters as Himself (New York University)
- María Rosa Menocal as Herself (Author, The Ornament of the World)
- D. Fairchild Ruggles as Herself (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Abigail Balbale as Herself (New York University)
- Adnan Husain as Himself (Queen's University)
- Teofilo Ruiz as Himself (Univ. of California, Los Angeles)
- Dwight Reynolds as Himself (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara)
- Ross Brann as Himself (Cornell University)
- Richard Bulliet as Himself (Columbia University)
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