Meetings with Remarkable Men (film)

Meetings with Remarkable Men
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Directed by	Peter Brook
Written by	G. I. Gurdjieff (book) Screenplay: Peter Brook, Jeanne de Salzmann
Produced by	Stuart Lyons
Starring	Dragan Maksimović, Terence Stamp
Cinematography	Gilbert Taylor
Edited by	John Jympson
Music by	Laurence Rosenthal
Distributed by	Enterprise Pictures Ltd
Release date	13 September 1979 (1979-09-13)(London)
Running time	89 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Meetings with Remarkable Men is a 1979 British biographical drama film directed by Peter Brook ^[1] and based on the book of the same name by Greek-Armenian 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 Maksimović as the adult Gurdjieff. The film was entered into the 29th Berlin International Film Festival, in competition for the Golden Bear award.

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. ^[2]

Selected cast

• Dragan Maksimović as G. I. Gurdjieff
• Terence Stamp as Prince Lubovedsky
• Mikica Dimitrijevic as The young Gurdjieff
• Warren Mitchell as Gurdjieff's father
• Athol Fugard as Professor Skridlov
• David Markham as Dean Borsh
• Natasha Parry as Vitvitskaia
• Colin Blakely as Tamil
• Grégoire Aslan as Armenian priest
• Tom Fleming as Father Giovanni
• Andrew Keir as Head of Sarmoung Monastery
• Donald Sumpter as Pogossian
• Gerry Sundquist as Karpenko
• Martin Benson as Dr Ivanov
• Bruce Purchase as Father Maxim
• Roger Lloyd-Pack as Pavlov

Further reading

• 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

1. Brook, Peter (September 1987). The shifting point, 1946-1987. Harper & Row. ISBN   978-0-06-039073-0 . Retrieved 14 April 2011.
2. 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

• Meetings with Remarkable Men at IMDb