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description = This documentary was produced and directed by [[Sw Prem Samvada|Robert Hillmann]] (USA). It was shot 1975 in Poona (Pune), India and premiered at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival.  
description = [[image:Bhagwan_1978_poster1.jpg | thumb |    | 300px ]]
[[image:Bhagwan_1978_poster2.jpg | thumb | director Robert Hillmann | 300px ]]
[[image:Bhagwan_1978_ADinJM.jpg | thumb | advert in the 1979 Yoga Journal | 300px ]]
[[image:Bhagwan (1978) - USA Handout.jpg | thumb | USA Handout, probably 1979 | 300px ]]
 
:This documentary was produced and directed by [[Sw Prem Samvada|Robert Hillmann]] (USA). It was shot in December 1975 in Poona (Pune), India and premiered at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival.
 
:Much of the documentary shows the events on [[Birthday Celebration 1975 ~ 01|'''Osho’s birthday, Dec 11, 1975''']].  


:Much of the documentary shows the events on Osho’s birthday, Dec 11, 1975. The discourse Osho gave on that day was the first chapter of ''[[Come Follow Me, Vol 3]]''.  
:The discourse Osho gave on that day was '''[[Come Follow Me Vol 3 ~ 01]]'''. This film has the only known recording of that event: parts of the discourse are shown, and more of Osho's words are used as a voice-over.


:The only known copy of the 16mm film was transferred to VHS tape in 1980 and digitally remastered in 2000. The remastered copies of the film are overlaid with German subtitles.  
:The only known copy of the 16mm film was transferred to VHS tape in 1980 and digitally remastered in 2000. The remastered copies of the film are overlaid with German subtitles.  


[[image:Bhagwan_1978_poster1.jpg | thumb |    | 300px ]]
:A description by [http://www.swami.de/aufruhr.htm Osho Film Festival] :
[[image:Bhagwan_1978_poster2.jpg | thumb | director Robert Hillmann | 300px ]]
::'''The first comprehensive film document about Osho and the early years of the Ashram'''
[[image:Bhagwan_1978_ADinJM.jpg | thumb | advert in the 1979 Yoga Journal | 300px ]]
::What was it like to walk with Jesus in Galilee? To dance with Krishna and the Gopis? To meditate in the commune of Gautama Buddha? Many of us have wondered and imagined - but of course there never was, nor never will be, a photographic record of these world-shaking events.  Today, though, things are different.
::This film, made by an American director in the Shree Rajneesh Ashram, Poona, in 1975, captures events that may well in the course of time prove every bit as memorable. It is narrated, without lip-sync, and subtitled in German.
::For years it was lost and, especially at the start of the film, has suffered a little damage - yet strangely this only gives a greater sense of history in the making, captured in unique and intimate footage, beginning and ending with the personal reflections of the film-maker.
::In those early days, the ashram was a distinctively Indian experience. The bicycles and rickshaws of the Poona streets, the children and the buffalo, are evocatively captured, so much so that one can almost smell the myriad smells and feel the midday heat.
::Many of the scenes within the ashram gates were shot on a celebration day, and here too the proceedings are very much Indian, including puja-offerings of flowers, incense and even a decorated cow as a birthday gift to Osho, with his mother and father in attendance.
::The ashram, at this stage, consisted of little more than a single house.
::Such a record as this can only be a revelation to those who came later.
::There is the master in the midst of the dancing throng, people pushing to touch his feet, some having to be carried away, out of their senses from that most intimate contact.
::The ashram musicians provide the soundtrack, together with well-chosen excerpts from a discourse on Jesus.
::There are also long and fascinating sequences of the Dynamic and Kundalini meditations - it is a rare thing to be able to sit and watch these in progress, to notice the tentativeness of some, the stiffness of others, the beautiful flowing energy, or devotion, or meditativeness of others again.
::There are even shots of the first experiments in group therapy. And here, too, it is very clear how small and ramshackle-intimate the commune then was, at a time when the first flood of Western Sannyasins was only just beginning to gather.
::This film is an unmissable experience for anyone who has any interest at all in its subject. Nobody could miss the sense of privilege – almost like witnessing a birth - nor fail to be impressed by what has been achieved since.
::The order, cleanliness and assurance was yet to come - but here is passion, intensity, discovery, ecstasy.
::Take the chance and watch it - you will want to see it again and again - and let your heart be awoken anew to the real power and mystery of life with a master.
 
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language = English (also with German subtitles) |
language = English (also with German subtitles) |
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;music by
;music by
:[[Sw Chaitanya Hari | Hare Chaitanya Deuter]]
:[[Sw Chaitanya Hari | Hare Chaitanya Deuter]] (Name is misspelled, should be Chaitanya Hari Deuter)


;produced by  
;produced by  
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:Michael Rudnick
:Michael Rudnick
:Debra McDermott
:Debra McDermott
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also = [[Osho Anubhuti Meditation Center, München]]
also = OshoFilmArchive catalog no : OFA00,004
:[https://www.oshoviha.org/p-806-bhagwan-1975-dvd OshoViha]
:[[Osho Anubhuti Meditation Center, München]]
:[https://www.oshonews.com/2018/06/18/osho-1975/ Osho, 1975] on OshoNews
:[http://www.sannyasnews.org/sannyasnews/Articles/Film1975.html Film review] by [[Sw Prem Sakal]]   
:[http://www.sannyasnews.org/sannyasnews/Articles/Film1975.html Film review] by [[Sw Prem Sakal]]   
:[http://www.swami.de/bhagwan75_e.htm Osho Film Festival]
:[http://www.swami.de/bhagwan75_e.htm Osho Film Festival]
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trailer =  |
trailer =  |
film =  OIF claims to own the copyright of the film and has requested Youtube to take it down.  
film =  Available on Vimeo as "Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Osho - Film Document".
:{{#ev:vimeo | 164366175 | 300 }}  |
:OIF claims to own the copyright of the film and has requested YouTube to take it down.  
:{{#ev:vimeo | 164366175 | 500 }} |
sources =
== DVD ==
:[[image:Bhagwan (1978) ; Anubuthi MC DVD Cover.jpg| 600px ]] [[image:Bhagwan (1978) ; Anubuthi MC DVD.jpg| 300px ]]
:Title: Bhagwan - A Seekers Journey to Pune in India - December 1975
:49 min. Film in English with German subtitles, original quality
:© DVD-video Produced by Osho Anubuthi MC Munich - Germany
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[[category:Sannyas Filmography]]
== stills ==
Captions largely by [[Ma Anand Bhagawati]].
<gallery widths=300px heights=210px mode="packed" >
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 04min 40sec Chaotic mecitation.jpg|04min 40sec Chaotic mecitation.
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 05min 06sec --Swami Sardar Gurudayal Singh-- (aka Sardarji).jpg|05min 06sec [[Sw Sardar Gurudayal Singh]] (aka Sardarji).
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 06min 11sec --Swami Paritosh-- (old Paritosh).jpg|06min 11sec [[Sw Paritosh]] (old Paritosh).
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 09min 57sec --Ma Anand Rupa--.jpg|09min 57sec [[Ma Anand Rupa]].
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 10min 52sec --Swami Sardar Gurudayal Singh-- (aka Sardarji).jpg|10min 52sec [[Sw Sardar Gurudayal Singh]] (aka Sardarji).
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 12min 21sec Deeksha’s mother.jpg|12min 21sec Deeksha’s mother.
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 12min 30sec --Swami Sardar Gurudayal Singh-- (aka Sardarji).jpg|12min 30sec [[Sw Sardar Gurudayal Singh]] (aka Sardarji).
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 13min 37sec --Ma Yoga Taru--.jpg|13min 37sec [[Ma Yoga Taru]].
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 13min 45sec A cow as a present for his birthday.jpg|13min 45sec A cow as a present for his birthday.
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 14min 05sec.jpg|14min 05sec.
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 14min 14sec --Swami Jayantibhai--.jpg|14min 14sec [[Sw Satya Bodhisattva (Jayantibhai)]].
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 14min 27sec Mataji (Osho’s mother).jpg|14min 27sec [[Ma Amrit Saraswati|Mataji]] (Osho’s mother).
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 14min 33sec Dadaji (Osho’s father).jpg|14min 33sec [[Sw Devateerth Bharti|Dadaji]] (Osho’s father).
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 14min 35sec --Swami Narendra Bodhisattva--.jpg|14min 35sec [[Sw Narendra Bodhisatva]].
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 14min 40sec Dadaji (left) and Narendra (right) making offerings.jpg|14min 40sec Dadaji (left) and Narendra (right) making offerings.
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 14min 48sec  Narendra and Dadaji blessing the new Land Rover.jpg|14min 48sec  Narendra and Dadaji blessing the new Land Rover.
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 15min 11sec --Ma Yoga Taru--.jpg|15min 11sec [[Ma Yoga Taru]].
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 18min 17sec --Swami Anand Prageet-- (left).jpg|18min 17sec [[Sw Anand Prageet]] (left).
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 18min 30sec.jpg|18min 30sec.
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 18min 39sec.jpg|18min 39sec.
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 22min 01sec.jpg|22min 01sec.
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 22min 56sec --Swami Venu Gopal--.jpg|22min 56sec [[Sw Venu Gopal]].
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 26min 20sec --Swami Chidananda-- (right).jpg|26min 20sec [[Sw Chidananda]] (right).
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 30min 28sec --Swami Sardar Gurudayal Singh-- (aka Sardarji) .jpg|30min 28sec [[Sw Sardar Gurudayal Singh]] (aka Sardarji) .
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 34min 00sec --Ma Krishna Radha--.jpg|34min 00sec [[Ma Krishna Radha]].
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 34min 09sec --Swami Krishna Saraswati-- (middle).jpg|34min 09sec [[Sw Krishna Saraswati]] (middle).
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 34min 16sec --Ma Yoga Sudha--] holding --Ma Krishna Radha--.jpg|34min 16sec [[Ma Yoga Sudha]] holding [[Ma Krishna Radha]].
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 34min 25sec --Ma Yoga Sudha-- holding --Ma Krishna Radha--.jpg|34min 25sec [[Ma Yoga Sudha]] holding [[Ma Krishna Radha]].
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 34min 41sec --Ma Yoga Sudha-- holding --Ma Krishna Radha--.jpg|34min 41sec [[Ma Yoga Sudha]] holding [[Ma Krishna Radha]].
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 34min 56sec.jpg|34min 56sec.
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 35min 38sec --Swami Vidyarthi--.jpg|35min 38sec [[Sw Vidyarthi]], left.
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 36min 12sec --Swami Anand Prageet--.jpg|36min 12sec [[Sw Anand Prageet]].
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 36min 26sec Laherubhai (--Swami Chaitanya Sagar--).jpg|36min 26sec Laherubhai ([[Sw Chaitanya Sagar]]).
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 36min 47sec --Ma Yoga Laxmi--.jpg|36min 47sec [[Ma Yoga Laxmi]].
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 37min 04sec --Ma Yoga Mukta--.jpg|37min 04sec [[Ma Yoga Mukta]].
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 37min 11sec --Ma Yoga Hansa--.jpg|37min 11sec [[Ma Yoga Hansa]].
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 37min 36sec --Swami Prem Devesh-- (maybe).jpg|37min 36sec [[Sw Prem Devesh]] (maybe).
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 38min 18sec --Ma Yoga Sudha--.jpg|38min 18sec [[Ma Yoga Sudha]].
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 39min 14sec --Ma Yoga Sudha--.jpg|39min 14sec [[Ma Yoga Sudha]].
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 39min 25sec --Swami Anand Prageet-- hugging --Ma Yoga Sudha--.jpg|39min 25sec [[Sw Anand Prageet]] hugging [[Ma Yoga Sudha]].
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 39min 35sec Dadaji (Osho’s father) dancing for Osho.jpg|39min 35sec Dadaji (Osho’s father) dancing for Osho.
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 39min 41sec Dadaji (Osho’s father).jpg|39min 41sec Dadaji (Osho’s father).
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 39min 55sec --Ma Prem Sujato-- maybe.jpg|39min 55sec [[Ma Prem Sujato]] maybe.
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 40min 13sec --Ma Yoga Taru-- (left) [[Ma Yoga Hansa-- (right).jpg|40min 13sec [[Ma Yoga Taru]] (left) [[Ma Yoga Hansa]] (right).
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 40min 31sec Prem Prem Arup (aka --Ma Prem Garimo--).jpg|40min 31sec Prem Prem Arup (aka [[Ma Prem Garimo]]).
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 40min 39sec --Swami Anand Prageet--.jpg|40min 39sec [[Sw Anand Prageet]].
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 42min 15sec.jpg|42min 15sec.
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 42min 55sec --Ma Anand Rupa-- (Anand not sure).jpg|42min 55sec [[Ma Anand Rupa]] (Anand not sure).
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 43min 34sec --Ma Prem Nirvano-- , --Ma Yoga Laxmi--.jpg|43min 34sec [[Ma Prem Nirvano]] , [[Ma Yoga Laxmi]].
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 44min 26sec --Ma Renuka-- (right, with headscarf).jpg|44min 26sec [[Ma Renuka]] (right, with headscarf).
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 44min 50sec --Swami Anand Maitreya-- (middle, with glasses).jpg|44min 50sec [[Sw Anand Maitreya]] (middle, with glasses).
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 44min 57sec --Swami Krishna-- (right, head of ashram guards) .jpg|44min 57sec [[Sw Krishna]] (right, head of ashram guards) .
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 45min 38sec.jpg|45min 38sec.
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 46min 09sec --Ma Satya Bharti-- (middle).jpg|46min 09sec [[Ma Satya Bharti]] (middle).
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 46min 18sec --Ma Yoga Nirvano--.jpg|46min 18sec [[Ma Yoga Vivek]]/[[Ma Prem Nirvano|Prem Nirvano]].
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 46min 21sec.jpg|46min 21sec.
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 46min 24sec.jpg|46min 24sec.
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 46min 35sec --Ma Ananda Vandana-- (right).jpg|46min 35sec [[Ma Ananda Vandana]] (right).
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 46min 53sec.jpg|46min 53sec.
Image:Bhagwan (1978) ; 47min 33sec Robert Hillmann aka --Sw Prem Samvado--.jpg|47min 33sec Robert Hillmann aka [[Sw Prem Samvado]].
</gallery>
 
 
 
[[category:Filmography]]

Latest revision as of 14:45, 4 May 2022

director Robert Hillmann
advert in the 1979 Yoga Journal
USA Handout, probably 1979
This documentary was produced and directed by Robert Hillmann (USA). It was shot in December 1975 in Poona (Pune), India and premiered at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival.
Much of the documentary shows the events on Osho’s birthday, Dec 11, 1975.
The discourse Osho gave on that day was Come Follow Me Vol 3 ~ 01. This film has the only known recording of that event: parts of the discourse are shown, and more of Osho's words are used as a voice-over.
The only known copy of the 16mm film was transferred to VHS tape in 1980 and digitally remastered in 2000. The remastered copies of the film are overlaid with German subtitles.
A description by Osho Film Festival :
The first comprehensive film document about Osho and the early years of the Ashram
What was it like to walk with Jesus in Galilee? To dance with Krishna and the Gopis? To meditate in the commune of Gautama Buddha? Many of us have wondered and imagined - but of course there never was, nor never will be, a photographic record of these world-shaking events. Today, though, things are different.
This film, made by an American director in the Shree Rajneesh Ashram, Poona, in 1975, captures events that may well in the course of time prove every bit as memorable. It is narrated, without lip-sync, and subtitled in German.
For years it was lost and, especially at the start of the film, has suffered a little damage - yet strangely this only gives a greater sense of history in the making, captured in unique and intimate footage, beginning and ending with the personal reflections of the film-maker.
In those early days, the ashram was a distinctively Indian experience. The bicycles and rickshaws of the Poona streets, the children and the buffalo, are evocatively captured, so much so that one can almost smell the myriad smells and feel the midday heat.
Many of the scenes within the ashram gates were shot on a celebration day, and here too the proceedings are very much Indian, including puja-offerings of flowers, incense and even a decorated cow as a birthday gift to Osho, with his mother and father in attendance.
The ashram, at this stage, consisted of little more than a single house.
Such a record as this can only be a revelation to those who came later.
There is the master in the midst of the dancing throng, people pushing to touch his feet, some having to be carried away, out of their senses from that most intimate contact.
The ashram musicians provide the soundtrack, together with well-chosen excerpts from a discourse on Jesus.
There are also long and fascinating sequences of the Dynamic and Kundalini meditations - it is a rare thing to be able to sit and watch these in progress, to notice the tentativeness of some, the stiffness of others, the beautiful flowing energy, or devotion, or meditativeness of others again.
There are even shots of the first experiments in group therapy. And here, too, it is very clear how small and ramshackle-intimate the commune then was, at a time when the first flood of Western Sannyasins was only just beginning to gather.
This film is an unmissable experience for anyone who has any interest at all in its subject. Nobody could miss the sense of privilege – almost like witnessing a birth - nor fail to be impressed by what has been achieved since.
The order, cleanliness and assurance was yet to come - but here is passion, intensity, discovery, ecstasy.
Take the chance and watch it - you will want to see it again and again - and let your heart be awoken anew to the real power and mystery of life with a master.
language
English (also with German subtitles)
released
1978
length
49 min

credits

directed and photographed by
Robert Hillmann
written and edited by
Samvada
music by
Hare Chaitanya Deuter (Name is misspelled, should be Chaitanya Hari Deuter)
produced by
Robert Hillmann - producer
Alfred Hillmann - post production supervisor
location sound recording by
Larry Marks
narration recording
David Dobkin
Steven Hill
sound editing by
Alfred Hillmann
sound mixing by
Will Harvey (STUDIO C)
cinematography
Charles Rudnick - opening title sequence
STOP FRAME - titles
assistant editor
John Fante
negative cutters
Michael Rudnick
Debra McDermott

see also

OshoFilmArchive catalog no : OFA00,004
OshoViha
Osho Anubhuti Meditation Center, München
Osho, 1975 on OshoNews
Film review by Sw Prem Sakal
Osho Film Festival

film

Available on Vimeo as "Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Osho - Film Document".
OIF claims to own the copyright of the film and has requested YouTube to take it down.

sources

DVD

Title: Bhagwan - A Seekers Journey to Pune in India - December 1975
49 min. Film in English with German subtitles, original quality
© DVD-video Produced by Osho Anubuthi MC Munich - Germany

stills

Captions largely by Ma Anand Bhagawati.


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