David Macaulay: Cathedral(1986)

🎬60 min
📅1986-04-30
🎭Documentary, History

Overview

Author David Macaulay hosts CATHEDRAL, based on his award-winning book. Using a combination of spectacular location sequences and cinema-quality animation, the program surveys France's most famous churches. Travel back to 1214 to explore the design of Notre Dame de Beaulieu, a representative Gothic cathedral. The program tells period tales revealing fascinating stories of life and death, faith and despair, prosperity, and intrigue.

Production

Unicorn Projects

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Cast

David Macaulay
as Self / Host / Narrator
Caroline Berg
as Self
Derek Jacobi
as Pierre (voice)
Geoffrey Matthews
as Bishop Philippe / Dean of the Chapter (voice)
Brian Blessed
as Master Guillaume (voice)
Paul Bacon
as Merchant Thibaut (voice)
Sean Barrett
as Bishop Gervais / Chapter Member (voice)
Peter Pacey
as Friar Roland / Robert of Cormont (voice)
Ellis Jones
as Ansel (voice)