THE RED SUFI
59 min. 2010, Germany (filmed in Pakistan)
Directed by Martin Weinhart
Photographed by Juergen Pietzner, Martin Weinhart
Sound by Michael Herbst
Edited by Rita Kegelmann
Produced by Reinhard Wulf (WDR/3sat)
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To the western world Pakistan is considered one of the most dangerous countries of the world. This documentary shows the soft face of this almost unknown country und leads to a world of sensual-religious rapture. We follow the German anthropologist Jürgen Wasim Frembgen, an international authority on Sufism in Pakistan, on his pilgrimage from Lahore to Sehwan Sharif to the holy shrine of the popular Sufi saint Lal Shahbaz Qalandar. Every year the anniversary of his death is celebrated like a wedding. Shiites and Sunnis, Hindus and Christians, women and transvestites, rich and poor are melting for five days of the „Mela“ and bring the hole town to a state of trance. Frembgen is a ethnologic flaneur, who wanders around and pauses where he is spellbound: at the mystic sounds of Qawwali music, the devotional dance Dhamal, the cultic suffering of the Shiites or at conversations with several devotees. They defend their culture with devotion and ecstasy against terror and death.
PUNANE SUFI
Režissöör Martin Weinhart
Pakistan loetakse üheks maailma ohtlikuimaks riigiks. Dokumentalist Martin Weinhart saadab saksa antropoloogi Jürgen Wasim Frembgeni, kes sufismi. Sufi pühakuks on Lal Shahbaz Qalander, kelle surma-aastapäeva tähistamine näeb välja kui üks suur ja lõputu pulm. Šiidid ja sunnid, hindud ning kristlased, ka uskumatud – kõik tähistavad „Mela’t“ ning langevad linnade kaupa transsi.