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Rumi: Poet of the Heart (1998)

ALL 01/01/1998 (en) Documentary 58 Min
  • Release
    01/01/1998
  • Production
    Magnolia Films
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  • Original title
    Rumi: Poet of the Heart
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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Overview

In 1244, Jelaluddin Rumi, a Sufi scholar in Konya, Turkey, met an itinerant dervish, Shams of Tabriz. A powerful friendship ensued. When Shams died, the grieving Rumi gripped a pole in his garden, and turning round it, began reciting imagistic poetry about inner life and love of God. After Rumi's death, his son founded the Mevlevi Sufi order, the whirling dervishes. Lovers of Rumi's poems comment on their power and meaning, including religious historian Huston Smith, writer Simone Fattal, poet Robery Bly, and Coleman Barks, who reworks literal translations of Rumi into poetic English. Musicians accompany Barks and Bly as they recite their versions of several of Rumi's ecstatic poems.

  1. Haydn Reiss

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Andrew Gersh

    Editor

  4. Producer



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  1. Debra Winger

    Narrator

  2. Coleman Barks

    (Self)

  3. Robert Bly

    (Self)

  4. Deepak Chopra

    (Self)

  5. Rumi

    Writer

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Rumi: Poet of the Heart (1998) 58 Min

ALL 01/01/1998 (en)
Documentary
  • Release 01/01/1998
  • Production
    Magnolia Films
  • Original title Rumi: Poet of the Heart
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

In 1244, Jelaluddin Rumi, a Sufi scholar in Konya, Turkey, met an itinerant dervish, Shams of Tabriz. A powerful friendship ensued. When Shams died, the grieving Rumi gripped a pole in his garden, and turning round it, began reciting imagistic poetry about inner life and love of God. After Rumi's death, his son founded the Mevlevi Sufi order, the whirling dervishes. Lovers of Rumi's poems comment on their power and meaning, including religious historian Huston Smith, writer Simone Fattal, poet Robery Bly, and Coleman Barks, who reworks literal translations of Rumi into poetic English. Musicians accompany Barks and Bly as they recite their versions of several of Rumi's ecstatic poems.

  1. Haydn Reiss

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Andrew Gersh

    Editor

  4. Producer



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