Guru - Bhagwan, His Secretary and His Bodyguard (2010)
- The film is entirely based on interviews with Hugh Milne (one of Osho's former bodyguards) and Ma Anand Sheela, one of Osho's former secretaries during the Rajneeshpuram period.
- The interviews are authentic, and are illustrated with lots of unique film material. It should be noted though --the film omits to do that-- that both have important interests in justifying themselves.
- See an interview with the director for a flavor of it's background.
- language
- English, German
- released
- 2010
- length
- 1 h 38 min
credits
- Opening credits
- Das Kollektiv für audiovisuelle Werke presents
- Producer: Phillip Delaquis
- Associate Producers: Stefan Zuber, Min Li Marti
- Co-Producer: Schweizer Fernsehen, Urs Augstburger
- Directors of Photography: Beat Häner, Matthias Kälin
- Sound Recordists: Saul Rouda, martin Witz
- Closing credits
- Written & Directed by Sabine Gisiger and Beat Häner
- Production manager: Frank Steffen
- Post Production manager: Andreas Winterstein
- Crew post production
- Assistant Editor: Theres Guggenbühl
- Second Assistant Editor: Tatjana Steinbichl
- Picture Postproduction & Lab: EgliFilm AG
- Digital Grading: Jürgen Kupka
- Smoke Operator: Laurence James
- Online Editing: Torsten Schiebold
- Animations: Andreas Winterstein
- Artworks Matthias Günter
- Sounddesign/Mix: Roman Bergamin, Studio B, Zürich
- Sound Mastering: Hans Küenzli, SDS, Ostermundigen
- Second Sound Recordists: Reto Stamm, Jan Illing
- Assistant Sounddesign: Darko Linder
- Sound Editor Thomas Gassmann
- Music composed by: Marcel Vaid
- Trombone: Bernhard Bamert
- Cello: Martin Birnstiel
- Violin: Monika Camenzind
- Clarinet: Thomas Geiger
- Accordeon: Martin Schumacher
- Japanese Bell: Philip Delaquis
- Guitars, Sitar, Kalimba, Piano: Marcel Vaid
- The devil danced" Alternative version
- (Music/Text: Raphelson)
- Performed by Raphelson
- Label: Two Gentlemen
- IN MEMORY
- Matthias Kälin
- Markus Luchsinger
- Manuel Schoch
- During the making of this movie, we had the privilege to get to know many Neo-Sannyasins all over the world who supported our project and shared their memories and passion.
- We would like to express our gratitude to all the persons who kindly and enthusiastically contributed to this movie in many ways.
- Many thanks to
- Gabriel Derendinger
- Zoe Gisiger
- Dilia Knobel
- Meral Kureyshi
- Thorsten Nölle
- Gisela Rocha
- AND
- Mansoor
- Tom and Jeanie Senior
- Stefan Schmid
- Special thanks to
- Robert Hillmann (Producer Director "Bhagwan" The Feature Film)
- Very special thanks
- Anna Luif
- Financially supported by: Bundesamt für Kultur; Zürcher Filmstiftung; Fachausschuss Audiovision und Multimedia der Kantone Basel-Stadt und Basel-Landschaft
- Co-produced by
- Schweizer Fernsehen; SRG SSR idée suisse; Teleclub AG
- Produced by
- Philip Delaquis
- Min Li Marti
- Stefan Zuber
- ©2010 Das Kollektiv für audiovisuelle Werke GmbH Zürich
- ISAN 000-0002-6B65-0000-V-0000-0000-I
- Not shown in the opening and closing credits
- film editing by Barbara Weber
- Guillermo J. Deisler - film laboratory manager
- cast:
- Hugh Milne - himself as "Former Bodyguard of Bhagwan"
- Ma Anand Sheela - herself (as Sheela Birnstiel) as "Former Secretary of Bhagwan"
- Osho - himself (archive footage - as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)
- rest of cast (listed alphabetically):
- Gayan - herself
- Laxmi - herself
- Marc Silverman - himself
see also
- Official website
- Press kit (German)
- Guru: Bhagwan, His Secretary & His Bodyguard on IMDB
- Guru: Bhagwan, His Secretary & His Bodyguard a review on Osho News
- Guru - Interview Sabine Gisiger (2010-10-11): an interview with the director
- OshoFilmArchive catalog no : OFA00,011
trailer
film
sources
DVD
- Format: PAL, Widescreen, 1.77:1
- Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 2.0)
- Subtitles: German
- Region: Region 2
- Number of discs: 1
Amazon Prime
- Link : B01H42BAW8
Vimeo
- Link : osho