Rumi: Poet of the Heart (1998)
Rumi: Poet of the Heart
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.
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Debra Winger
as Narrator
as Narrator
Coleman Barks
as (Self)
as (Self)
Robert Bly
as (Self)
as (Self)
Deepak Chopra
as (Self)
as (Self)
Rumi
as Writer
as Writer
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Haydn Reiss
Director
Director
Andrew Gersh
Editor
Editor
Brooke Wentz
Music Consultant
Music Consultant
