Rumi: Poet of the Heart

Rumi: Poet of the Heart (1998)

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.

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  • Release Date: 1998-01-01
  • Runtime: 0h 58min
  • Director: Haydn Reiss

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Cast

  • Debra Winger

    Narrator (voice)

  • Rumi

    Self - Poet (archive footage)

  • Coleman Barks

    Self

  • Robert Bly

    Self

  • Deepak Chopra

    Self

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