Meetings With Remarkable Men (Part 11 of 11)

Filmed in 1979 by Peter Brook. A classic spiritual movie of G.I. Gurdjieff struggles beginning with his childhood until his discovery of The Fourth Way, an ancient spiritual tradition that used sacred movements as meditation. The story in this film is based on Gudjieff's book with the same title, which is the second book of his trilogy: "All and Everything".

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.

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• dervish

[wotan237]

Gurdjieff had a big piece of the puzzle...but by no means all of it....this film has a serene power.

[VVVadim]

Thanks a lot, great movie!

[hermitwoofy]

What a vivid imagination Gurdjieff had! It would be so cool to find a monastery somewhere that had a good-sized slice of the Truth, whatever that might be, away from the world of commerce and worldly desires. Actually there are many such isolated monasteries but I've never seen one that had ..... It. Some special knowledge or energy or power that could be seen by outsiders, that transformed the monks from talking fire-chimps to something beyond ordinary humanity.

[scientistMUC79]

@cciemail and what do you want? thats perhaps the most important question of all...

[hearts0ngs]

thanks for uploading this. I watched it from beginning to end, and loved it.

[strayaway2]

Thanks for uploading the whole movie........much enjoyed.^_^

[cciemail]

wise men don't speak in riddles. and you can't get the answers from sombody else. you can waste your whole life going from town to town searching for some divine truth. there is no divine truth. each person has to live their own life and get out of it whatever they want.

[sabramat]

Thank you SO MUCH for this wonderful movie .... I saw it many years ago and it is indeed still sublime!

[TheWaterlily2012]

Good movie, I'm glad they all found the things they were searching for.

[ajayhooda]

Thank you aware silence. It is marvelous.

[Atempoespacio]

Thanks for the movie.

[rogston39]

An enigmatic, thought provoking masterpiece !! Great .