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 below for an interview with the director.
- 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
- Guru: Bhagwan, His Secretary & His Bodyguard on Amazon Prime
- Guru: Bhagwan, His Secretary & His Bodyguard on IMDB
- Guru: Bhagwan, His Secretary & His Bodyguard a review on Osho News
- Exclusive Preview on YouTube
- OshoFilmArchive catalog no : OFA00,011
trailer
Interview with the director
- On YouTube there is a interview with the film director, Sabine Gisiger (Oct. 11, 2011), where she talks about her documentary. Interviewer: Raul Gallyot.
- To give a flavor of her background, some quotes from this interview:
- Gisiger: He is today more known as Osho, there are still many books around, and we tell his story. He started in the 70s in India, and he got lots of followers because his idea was that one could get samadhi, that means enlightenment, trough sex, and this was a very attractive offer.
- Interviewer: Enlightenment through sex?
- Gisiger: Yes.
- ...
- Gisiger: ... now let's talk about the 70s, before they came to US. And eh, that was his guideline that he said that the most important thing is to find out who you are, so you have to do special meditation for Western people, who can not stand still, but who have to move a lot. And to have to liberate then ehh, sex, having sex with everybody. To ehhm, enlightenment.
- Interviewer: Do you agree with that?
- Gisiger: I mean it was a try, I don't agree and it wouldn't function because there is one important thing that they were probably missing to learn and that is empathy for others.
- ...
- Interviewer: What are your spiritual beliefs, can you share that?
- Gisiger: I'm not a religious person.
- Interviewer: What about spiritual, you don't have a guru or someone?
- Gisiger: I don't have a guru. I believe in spirituality, and a little bit more in psychotherapy.
- Interviewer: Psychotherapy, yeah, sure.
- ...
- Interviewer: How much do you learn about yourself while you are touring?
- Gisiger: Ehhm, not so much, because it's always too busy.
- Interviewer: It's a distraction?
- Gisinger: Yeah.
- Interviewer: So then what tools do you use in your everyday life?
- Gisinger: Reading.
- Interviewer: Isn't that more intellectual?
- Gisinger: Ehh, I'm an intellectual person.
- ...