Meeting with Remarkable Men is a 1979 British biographical drama film directed by Peter Brook, based on the book of the same name by G. I. Gurdjieff.
The film follows the early life of Gurdjieff, a seeker and mystic who travels extensively throughout Asia and the Mediterranean in his desire to learn ancient religions. The eponymous "remarkable men" are the various teachers he submits to along the way, including the members of an esoteric sect and a Russian prince.
The film is noteworthy for making public some glimpses of the Gurdjieff movements. It stars Dragan Maksimovic as G. I. Gurdjieff and Terence Stamp as Prince Lubovedsky.
"Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness." "The power of changing oneself lies not in the mind, but in the body and the feelings."
"Man has no individual I. But there are, instead, hundreds and thousands of separate small 'i's, very often entirely unknown to one another, never coming into contact, or, on the contrary, hostile to each other."
The film follows the early life of Gurdjieff, a seeker and mystic who travels extensively throughout Asia and the Mediterranean in his desire to learn ancient religions. The eponymous "remarkable men" are the various teachers he submits to along the way, including the members of an esoteric sect and a Russian prince.
The film is noteworthy for making public some glimpses of the Gurdjieff movements. It stars Dragan Maksimovic as G. I. Gurdjieff and Terence Stamp as Prince Lubovedsky.