Rumi: Poet of the Heart
1998 · 58 MIN · IMDB 8.1 · 38 VOTES · DIR. Haydn Reiss
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 592 lines
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00:00:23 [Debra Winger] In the town of Konya, in central Turkey...
00:03:00 the essential truths of Sufism exist in all religions.
00:04:54 Those kind of people. Like Thoreau magnified five times.
00:06:37 So, I'm not saying this right.
00:08:19 Because the earth has many oceans. All the time they meet, and...
00:10:57 So no one knows exactly the truth, but...
00:13:04 is addressed directly in many of Rumi's poems.
00:16:53 I owe a great debt of gratitude to Coleman Barks.
00:18:51 Then there's a translator. I'm responsible for the accuracy.
00:20:58 most attuned to spiritual questions...
00:23:07 Speaking in Persian.
00:24:51 "Listen to the story, told by the reed, of being separated."
00:26:53 We live parting from something. That's great.
00:29:39 "The ruby and the sunrise are one".
00:32:18 They're gone and it's all well.
00:34:37 and all these things that go like this.
00:38:19 Rumi says "On Resurrection Day your body testifies against you."
00:40:52 "with something circling inside."
00:43:25 that they were going to move into soon.
00:45:22 so that parents or teachers that give great poetry...
00:47:03 It's gorgeous, fantastic.
00:49:12 that you can have it once in a while, or never in your life...
00:51:52 "This is not grief or joy."
30:12:00 Balkh, Afghanistan...