Meetings with Remarkable Men

Meetings with Remarkable Men is a 1979 British biographical drama film directed by Peter Brook 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. 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.