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200548 minPGdocumentary

10.0/ 10(1 rating)• TMDB

Rumi: Turning Ecstatic

200548 minPGdocumentary

10.0/ 10(1 rating)• TMDB

Tina Petrova's car crash in the California desert prompts her to investigate the influence of 13th century Sufi mystic Rumi's poetry and philosophy.

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Tina Petrova's car crash in the California desert prompts her to investigate the influence of 13th century Sufi mystic Rumi's poetry and philosophy.

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Stephen Roloffdirector

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In December 1997, Tina Petrova drove off a cliff - literally and figuratively. A tragic car crash in the California desert was the beginning of a journey that would lead her to the extraordinary works of 13th century Sufi mystic Mevlana Jellaludin Rumi and to a remarkable array of people whose lives have been transformed by his poetry and philosophy. Rumi: Turning Ecstatic is her true story, a timely, powerful docudrama that take the viewer into the very heart of Sufi mysticism.

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