Guru: Bhagwan, His Secretary & His Bodyguard
MovieTitle | Guru: Bhagwan, His Secretary & His Bodyguard |
User score | 5.4 |
Release date | May 1, 2010 |
Genre | Documentary, History |
Director | Beat Häner , Sabine Gisiger |
Production country | Switzerland |
Production companies | Das Kollektiv für audiovisuelle Werke |
Run time | 98 min. |
The wild Seventies. A quest for higher consciousness, spirituality and sexual freedom. In England, young Hugh Milne hears the voice of spiritual teacher Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh on an audiotape and travels to India in search of his own self. Sheela Patel, a young Indian woman, is brought to the charismatic guru by her father. At 21, she knows: all she wants is to be with this man. In his Ashram in Poona, Bhagwan urges his disciples to meditate and practise tantric sex in order to reach a higher plane of consciousness. Hugh watches the guru's ascent as his bodyguard. Sheela becomes his secretary and the powerful boss of Bhagwan's model community born in the mountains of Oregon...