GURU
Switzerland, April 2010
FILM,
Documentary,
98 min.
- directed by
- Sabine Gisiger, Beat Häner
- Written by
- Sabine Gisiger, Beat Häner
- Status
- In distribution
- Website
- www.gurufilm.ch
At the beginning of the 1970s Hugh Milne listens to a cassette of the spiritual teacher, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and makes a trip from England to India in a search to find himself. Sheela Patel is taken by her father to meet the charismatic guru. Bhagwan urges his disciples to practice meditation and tantric sexuality. Hugh accompanies the rise of the guru while acting as his bodyguard. Sheela becomes the head of the model commune that springs to life in the 1980s in the mountains of Oregon. The dream ends as a nightmare, for Hugh in a nervous breakdown and for Sheela in prison. But the journey is not yet over.
credits
- World Premiere
- April 2010
- Original Version
- English (french/german subtitles), colour, 35mm, 98 min.
- Production
- Das Kollektiv für audiovisuelle Werke GmbH, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, Teleclub AG
- Producer
- Philip Delaquis
- directed by
- Sabine Gisiger, Beat Häner
- Written by
- Sabine Gisiger, Beat Häner
- Cinematography
- Beat Häner, Matthias Kälin
- Editing
- Barbara Weber
- Sound Design
- Roman Bergamin
- Music
- Marcel Vaid
- Location Sound Mix
- Martin Witz, Saul Rouda
World Sales / World Rights
- World Sales
- Magnetfilm GmbH
Worldwide Distribution
- Austria
-
Polyfilm Verleih
Distribution
Release date: 08.10.2010 - Germany
-
Pandora Film Verleih GmbH
Distribution
Release date: 02.09.2010 - Switzerland
-
Filmcoopi Zürich AG
Distribution
Release date: tba
Festivals
(a selection)
-
Mill Valley CA, Mill Valley Film Festival
06.10.2011 - 16.10.2011 -
Solothurn, Solothurner Filmtage
20.01.2011 - 27.01.2011 -
Locarno, 63. Festival del film Locarno
04.08.2010 - 14.08.2010 -
Nyon, 16e Visions du Réel Festival international de cinéma Nyon
15.04.2010 - 21.04.2010