Rumi: Poet Of The Heart
by Haydn Reiss
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Actor: Narrated by Debra WingerDirector: Haydn Reiss
Brand: ZINC FILMS
DVD: Region Code 1
Format: Color, NTSC
Running Time: 90 minutes
Published: 2004-02-02
DVD Release Date: 2004-04-01
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Magnolia Films
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Summary: 5 Stars
"Rumi - Poet of the Heart" is a fifty-five minute documentary that introduces us to the work of Persian poet Jelaluddin Rumi. This is accomplished through an intimate dialog with Coleman Barks, his English language translator. The work also features the narration of actress Debra Winger and sensitive observations by scholars such as Huston Smith, Robert Bly, Simone Fattal, Deepak Chopra and the Sufi mystic Sheik Jelaluddin Loras.
The first fifteen minutes of the video relate the biography of Rumi, who was born in Afghanistan during the year 1207. Rumi's family moved to Turkey, where his father became the head of an Islamic Sufi learning community. Upon his father's death, Rumi took his place as the head of this ancient community of prayer.
Rumi eventually met with a desert mystic named Shams of Tabriz and mentored under him for a number of years. The grief that Rumi felt, upon the death of Shams, led to the birth of his poetry of longing and also to the creation of the Whirling Dervish dance tradition.
The story of how Coleman Barks came to his decades-long project as translator of Rumi's Persian texts is then revealed. We witness recording sessions where Mr. Barks reads from his acclaimed translations of the poet. These sessions are often accompanied with musical instrumentation such as the oud, harmonium, dotar, tabla, violin, ney and sarod. Video talks by the various scholars, which were often shot within beautiful natural settings, are interspersed among the studio sessions. All of these elements combine to suggest both the tone and the meaning of Rumi's poetry.
"Rumi - Poet of the Heart" is a devotional work that gently guides viewers through an introduction to the life and spirit of one of America's most widely read poets. Join with Coleman Barks and company to explore Rumi's compelling inner secret world. You will be transformed through their intoxicating spirit of contagious enthusiasm.
Summary of Rumi: Poet Of The Heart
Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing there is a field. I'll meet you there." Speaking across all traditions, to all people, Rumi's passionate and playful poems stir the soul with their truth. Celebrate sacred life in everyday existence and the spoken world with Coleman Barks. Accompanying Barks are Robert Bly, Deepak Chopra, historian Huston Smith and musicians Hamza El Din and Jai Uttal. This is one of the most beautiful films we have seen. DVD.Similar DVD Movies
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