Meetings with Remarkable Men (film)
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| Directed by | Peter Brook |
| Produced by | Stuart Lyons |
| Written by | G. I. Gurdjieff (book) Screenplay: Peter Brook, Jeanne de Salzmann |
| Starring | Dragan Maksimovic Terence Stamp |
| Music by | Laurence Rosenthal |
| Cinematography | Gilbert Taylor |
| Editing by | John Jympson |
| Distributed by | Enterprise Pictures Ltd |
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| Running time | 108 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Meetings with Remarkable Men is a 1979 British film directed by Peter Brook[1] and based on the book of the same name by Russian mystic, G. I. Gurdjieff, first published in English in 1963. Shot on location in Afghanistan (except for dance sequences, which were filmed in England), it starred Terence Stamp, and Dragan Maksimovic as the adult G. I. Gurdjieff. The film was entered into the 29th Berlin International Film Festival and nominated for the Golden Bear.[2]
The plot involves Gurdjieff and his companions' search for truth in a series of dialogues and vignettes, much as in the book. Unlike the book, these result in a definite climax—Gurdjieff's initiation into the mysterious Sarmoung Brotherhood. The film is noteworthy for making public some glimpses of the Gurdjieff movements.[3]
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Selected cast[edit]
- Dragan Maksimovic as G. I. Gurdjieff
- Terence Stamp as Prince Lubovedsky
- Athol Fugard as Professor Skridlov
- Gerry Sundquist as Karpenko
- Donald Sumpter as Pogossian
- Tom Fleming as Father Giovanni
- Martin Benson as Dr Ivanov
- Colin Blakely as Tamil
- Mikica Dimitrijevic as the young Gurdjieff
- Roger Lloyd Pack as Pavlov
- Warren Mitchell as Gurdjieff's father
- Bruce Purchase as Father Maxim
Further reading[edit]
- Meetings with remarkable men: my impressions of the film, by Kathryn Hulme. Remar Productions, 1979.
- Meetings with remarkable men: One man's search becomes a film, by Pamela Lyndon Travers.
References[edit]
- ^ Brook, Peter (September 1987). The shifting point, 1946-1987. Harper & Row. ISBN 978-0-06-039073-0. Retrieved 14 April 2011.
- ^ "IMDB.com: Awards for Meetings with Remarkable Men". imdb.com. Retrieved 2010-08-15.
- ^ Panafieu, Bruno De; Needleman, Jacob; Baker, George (September 1997). Gurdjieff. Continuum International Publishing Group. pp. 28–. ISBN 978-0-8264-1049-8. Retrieved 14 April 2011. "A brief glimpse of the dances appears at the very end of the motion picture about Gurdjieff, Meetings with Remarkable Men, produced and directed in 1978 by Peter Brook, with a screenplay by Peter Brook and Jeanne de Salzmann"
External links[edit]
- Meetings with Remarkable Men at the Internet Movie Database
- Meetings with Remarkable Men at AllRovi
- Details and slideshow on the film + DVD release
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