No More to Say & Nothing to Weep For: An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg

Witness the last days of the Beat poet whose works would capture the very essence of the 1960 counter-cultural movement in an informative documentary featuring Allan Ginsburg's final television interview as well as remarkable deathbed footage shot by underground cinema icon Jonas Mekas.

Cast

Steve Allen

as Self (archive footage)

Eugene Brooks

as Self

Allen Ginsberg

as Self (archive footage)

Jack Kerouac

as Self (archive footage)

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