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Baraka

  • 19921992
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  • 1h 36m
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8.5/10
39K
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Baraka (1992)
Documentary
A collection of expertly photographed scenes of human life and religion.A collection of expertly photographed scenes of human life and religion.A collection of expertly photographed scenes of human life and religion.
IMDb RATING
8.5/10
39K
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    • Ron Fricke
  • Writers
    • Ron Fricke(concept)
    • Mark Magidson(concept)
    • Genevieve Nicholas(treatment)
    • Patrick Disanto(uncredited)
    • Ron Fricke
  • Writers
    • Ron Fricke(concept)
    • Mark Magidson(concept)
    • Genevieve Nicholas(treatment)
    • Patrick Disanto(uncredited)
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    • 39Critic reviews
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    Patrick Disanto
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      • Ron Fricke
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      • Ron Fricke(concept) (scenario) (treatment)
      • Mark Magidson(concept) (scenario)
      • Genevieve Nicholas(treatment)
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    • Trivia
      The shot with the monk on the streets of Tokyo was unplanned. The crew went to a factory for filming but after many hours of searching for ideas, they disbanded the place, finding it unsuitable for filming. On their way back to the hotel, producer Mark Magidson saw the monk walking and stopped the cars and asked director/cinematographer Ron Fricke to film him. After obtaining the footage, the crew gave the monk some money and left. The monk never stopped his prayer and never looked into the camera.
    • Goofs
      The city Istanbul is misspelled in the movie twice, as Instanbul.
    • Connections
      Edited into Circle of Life: An Environmental Fable (1995)
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    User reviews176

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    A true GAIA experience
    When I first experienced (that's the most striking word for it) this movie at the Gothenburg Film Festival 1994, I was truly amazed. Never before - or since - have I had such an over all explain-it-all feeling after a show.

    Ron Fricke has made a documentary about the World today for a day: starting at dawn with monkeys in hot springs in Japan, and the morning rituals of various religions. This is followed by the awakening of the human race, both in the big cities and on the country side. Brilliantly edited together follows every aspect of human daily life combined with the general changes of the planet itself and all the ecological systems upon it.

    The over all glue of the story are the various religious rituals. Maybe this is my personal interpretation, being a teacher of Religion, but the only time giver, except for the turning of the sun, are the praying times and times of worship peoples practice around the globe.

    My comparison of the film to the GAIA idea (that the Earth as a whole being a unit, a living organism) is detectable both in the way every different cultures shown are found to be very similar to one another, as well as the speeded up people at side walks and zebra crossings look very much like the stream of blood in the veins of an organism.

    All in all this is a marvellous movie pointing out both the uniqueness of the individual and the unity with all people. Go see it - now!
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    • jcnteach
    • May 3, 1999

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      • November 19, 1993 (United States)
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      • Bali, Indonesia
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      • Magidson Films
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    • 1 hour 36 minutes
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