- Actors: Marius Goring, Constantine Gregory, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Terence Stamp, Grégoire Aslan
- Directors: Peter Brook
- Producers: Meetings with Remarkable Men
- Format: Import, PAL
- Language English, Spanish
- Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: 15
- Run Time: 108.00 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B003J6QZ92
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 135,001 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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Spain released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), French ( Subtitles ), German ( Subtitles ), Italian ( Subtitles ), Portuguese ( Subtitles ), Spanish ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Remastered, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: As a young man exploring ancient ruins, Gurdjieff discovers scrolls confirming the existence of a hidden brotherhood long thought to be extinct. He begins a search that leads through unforeseeable hazards and finally to a school where he learns to bring together all the principles of an esoteric teaching. The film, by renowned director Peter Brook, was made on location in the forbidding, rarely photographed mountains and deserts of Afghanistan, and has been widely acclaimed for its unique visual beauty. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Berlin International Film Festival, ...Meetings with Remarkable Men
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I first saw this superb film (which is, in fact, Meetings With Remarkable Men, not Meeting), on its box-office release at the now-defunct and tiny Minema in Knightsbridge and have hoped for years to find it on VHS or DVD, but copies in either format are not the sort that end up being sold for £1 in an Oxfam shop. Seeing the film again on DVD reminded me how good it is. The story is the (supposed) early years of the philosopher-adventurer Gurdjieff, a "khitry chelovek" ("cunning man"), who later set up an Institute near Paris in the 1920's and then went, I believe, to the USA to continue to make his fortune and collect followers. This film covers his boyhood and later his alleged search, as a young man, for a Brotherhood of secretive occultists living in the mountains of Central Asia. Whatever one's views on Gurdjieff, this is worth seeing ...and it may be true. In the early 1980's, Soviet surveillance aircraft did locate a huge monastic-castle building somewhere high and remote in the Pamir Mountains (though I never heard what happened after or whether it was investigated). See this film.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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It is a simple film that may not be in the oscar category but some of the sequences are amazing especially the music in the mountains at the start and the wonderful dervish movements towards the end.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Although this film follows the early days of G I Gurdjieff as he described them it fails to be a useful teaching tool for his methods. The film is beautifully made and does show glimpses of Gurdjieff's sacred dances but I think that it would have been more use to make a film of his teaching times at the Prieure in France.
Gurdjieff wanted the people of the world to 'wake up' from their daily living and become free from their mental patterns. If you watch this film with a relaxed and open mind you may find some aspects of it will help you on your search for deeper wisdom.
If you want to read more about Gurdjieff's methods get yourself a copy of the book 'In Search of the Miraculous' by P.D.Ouspensky. Also if you check out the web you will find a short film of this book which is much more instructive than 'Meetings'.
Gurdjieff wanted the people of the world to 'wake up' from their daily living and become free from their mental patterns. If you watch this film with a relaxed and open mind you may find some aspects of it will help you on your search for deeper wisdom.
If you want to read more about Gurdjieff's methods get yourself a copy of the book 'In Search of the Miraculous' by P.D.Ouspensky. Also if you check out the web you will find a short film of this book which is much more instructive than 'Meetings'.
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Meetings with Remarkable Men
I bought this as a gift for my dad - he watched it twice straight off and has watched it again since (at least once more)...Must be good!
Published 4 months ago by Karatemma
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I saw this film when I was teenager. Having been born in the community school run by Bennett, a disciple of Gurdjieff I was immersed in the teachings of the mischievous man but... Read more
Published on 28 Sep 2007 by Peter Gibson
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