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Mood:
- Uplifting
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Plot:
- IntrospectionSelf DiscoveryReligions or CultsMind and SoulObsessive QuestCause and MeaningHopesSociety
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Genres:
- DramaIndependent
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Time/Period:
- 70s
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Place:
- AsiaHimalayaDesert
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Based on:
- Biography
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealistic
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Meetings with Remarkable Men, 1979
English
UK
Profile of Meetings with Remarkable Men
The mood of Meetings with Remarkable Men is uplifting. The plot centers around religions or cults, introspection, and self discovery. It is a drama and independent movie. In approach, Meetings with Remarkable Men is serious and realistic. It takes place, at least partly, in the desert. The setting is the Himalayas. Meetings with Remarkable Men is drawn from a biography.
Summary of Meetings with Remarkable Men
During his long career, director Peter Brook has conducted a wide range of theatrical experiments, pushing audiences and performers well beyond their typical experience of theater, in an effort to achieve not a temporary catharsis but a transcendent, transformative event. As the narrator of THE MAHABHARATA says, "If you listen carefully, at the end, you'll be somebody else." This interest in transformation that has characterized the latter part of Brook's career continues with this adaptation of the autobiography of famed mystic G.I. Gurdjieff, which stars Dragan Maksimovic. Driven by a sense of unwavering dedication to unraveling the meaning of human existence, he journeys throughout the most unattainable areas of the East, encountering an array of Hindu fakirs, Buddhist monks, whirling dervishes, and gurus of every stripe. In search of enlightenment, he climbs the Himalayas, walks across the desert on stilts, and uncovers evidence of an ancient order, guards of an arcane wisdom. Most fascinating, perhaps, is the form of dance he created as a form of meditation and later taught in the West. A film that may be best appreciated by those already familiar with the work of Gurdjieff, MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE MEN features spectacular photography and a highly evocative score, incorporating various indigenous musics.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | UK |
| Release date: | 5 August 1979 |
| Runtime: | 108 min |
Cast and Crew
as Armenian Priest / Le prêtre arménien
as Dr. Ivanov
as Tamil
as Young Gurdjieff
