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Guru: Bhagwan, His Secretary & His Bodyguard

  • 2010
  • 1h 38m
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
190
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Guru: Bhagwan, His Secretary & His Bodyguard (2010)
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The rise of the so called "sex-guru" Bhagwan and his model commune in Poona and Oregon in the 1970s and 1980s told by his former close disciples, his personal secretary and bodyguard.The rise of the so called "sex-guru" Bhagwan and his model commune in Poona and Oregon in the 1970s and 1980s told by his former close disciples, his personal secretary and bodyguard.The rise of the so called "sex-guru" Bhagwan and his model commune in Poona and Oregon in the 1970s and 1980s told by his former close disciples, his personal secretary and bodyguard.

  • Directors
    • Sabine Gisiger
    • Beat Häner
  • Writers
    • Sabine Gisiger
    • Beat Häner
  • Stars
    • Hugh Milne
    • Ma Anand Sheela
    • Osho
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.5/10
    190
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    • Directors
      • Sabine Gisiger
      • Beat Häner
    • Writers
      • Sabine Gisiger
      • Beat Häner
    • Stars
      • Hugh Milne
      • Ma Anand Sheela
      • Osho
    • 4User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 nomination total

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    Hugh Milne
    • Self
    Ma Anand Sheela
    Ma Anand Sheela
    • Self
    • (as Sheela Birnstiel)
    Osho
    Osho
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)
    Gayan
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Laxmi
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Marc Silverman
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • Directors
      • Sabine Gisiger
      • Beat Häner
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      • Sabine Gisiger
      • Beat Häner
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    10reza-58742

    EXCELLENT AND VERY IMPORTANT MOVIE

    The thrilling movie depicted an ambitious and talented businessman / ex-philosophy professor, a crook, who abused people's gullibility to rise to great heights materially and then his fall. Osho was a crook but the people who followed him were also responsible for the misery they led him onto. If he was a good man he would have said, don't follow me, but instead he encouraged them to follow him and give him lots of free service and lots of money and power and position.

    Read the rest of my review on the writings section of my website rezamusic dot com (search the page for any of these words: RAJNEESH OSHO (Osho)'s Fraud & A review of the movie GURU - Bhagwan, His Secretary & His Bodyguard.
    5KinoBuff2021

    This documentary is eerie, slow, but offers a new look after watching 'Wild Wild Country'

    As always with Osho and Rajneeshpuram, the haters and lovers will gladly tell you why your wrong. And reviewers and comments show this.

    This documentary is meh but that's mainly due to the very slow pace and little added already to the highly controversial Rajneeshpuram commune and the ever-polarizing Bhagwan. I am writing this after watching the Netflix docuseries 'Wild Wild Country' (2018) and maybe you are too. Otherwise there really isn't a reason to watch this documentary unless you just want something calm to watch while you go to bed.

    This film honestly isn't that biased like other people say. In this film people give their account from their own perspective. Its plainly directed but not "one-sided".

    This film is guided by Bhagwan's bodyguard who tells his account as someone who was close to power but did not have much themselves, and is guided by Sheela whose perspective and opinions seem to leave you cross-checking other interviews from tv, court, and films for reference to see if they are actually true or not.

    If you are interested in documentaries on cults, this one is worth watching actually as you see the long-lasting impacts cults and organizations can have individuals. This won't fill many (if any) gaps on Rajneeshpuram after WWC but its always interesting to see another doc on this subject and how its told.
    1charles-285-174791

    A extraordinarily one sided documentary

    I've just watch this movie. I was rather shocked that such a documentary could be made so one sided. It is literally based on the opinions of two people that blame others for their own actions and failures. From what I have read about Sheela, she was more "fifteen lives for one ours" than the innocent victim and gentle sole reflected by the interviews. The director must have had personal issue with his man to have been able to create such a subjective not objective film. I was hoping the film would give me a better insight yet I was left feeling I was not give the true story. I was very disappointed by the poor standard of journalism.
    1prathyushamadan

    One Sided Story

    I din't know who this man was though I came across some of his books which were quit interesting. When I watched this documentry, I was stunned and disgusted to see so many sheep following someone who wanted to make hell loads of money. Later one of my friends asked me to watch Wild Wild Country and after watching it, I felt I was wrong. People had their own believes. This documentry is so one sided and show the whole picture in a bad light. I can't believe the director cut the story into pieces and patched it up where ever he wanted changing the whole damn point of view.

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    • Release date
      • May 2010 (Switzerland)
    • Country of origin
      • Switzerland
    • Official site
      • Official site (Switzerland)
    • Languages
      • English
      • German
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      • Das Kollektiv für audiovisuelle Werke
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      • $82,718
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      • 1h 38m(98 min)
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