2003 · 90 min · dokumentalny

Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality

Opis filmu

Opis oryginalny: angielski

Narrated by Gabriel Byrne (Usual Suspects, Vanity Fair, Miller's Crossing), this seven-time Best Documentary award-winning film (Silver Lake Film Festival, Beverly Hills Film Festival) is the most comprehensive and mind-blowing investigation of humankind's relationship with death ever captured on film. Hailed by many viewers as a "life-transformational film," Flight from Death uncovers death anxiety as a possible root cause of many of our behaviors on a psychological, spiritual, and cultural level. Following the work of the late cultural anthropologist, Ernest Becker, and his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Denial of Death, this documentary explores the ongoing research of a group of social psychologists that may forever change the way we look at ourselves and the world. Over the last twenty-five years, this team of researchers has conducted over 300 laboratory studies, which substantiate Becker's claim that death anxiety is a primary motivator of human behavior...

Reżyseria i główne role

Reżyseria: Patrick Shen

Główne role: Gabriel Byrne jako Narrator, Sam Keen jako Self - Author and philosopher, Ron Leifer jako Self - Psychiatrist, Robert Jay Lifton jako Robert Jay Lifton, Merlyn Mowrey jako Self - Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Central Michigan University, Sheldon Solomon jako Self - Professor of Psychology, Skidmore College

Pełna obsada

Scenariusz

Greg Bennick, Patrick Shen