Rumi: Poet of the Heart

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Debra Winger

Narrator

Age : 68 | Popularity : 20%

Coleman Barks

(Self)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 5%

Robert Bly

(Self)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Deepak Chopra

(Self)

Age : 76 | Popularity : 3%

Rumi

Writer

Age : N/A | Popularity : 0%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Sound	Music Consultant	Brooke Wentz
Editing	Editor	Andrew Gersh
Directing	Director	Haydn Reiss
Department	Role	Name

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