Peter Brook, one of the pioneers of the experimental theatre movement of the 1950s and 1960s, was the director of Meetings with Remarkable Men - Brook tells the story of Asian mystic G. I. Gurdjieff - here played by Dragan Maksimovic - basically a recounting of Gurdjieff’s early life and influences as a child and later adventures in Central Asia in search for secret esoteric schools and enlightenment..

Gurdjieff devotes his entire existence, from youth to old age, in quest of the meaning of life. He eventually develops a form of meditation incorporating modern dance. Terence Stamp, who in Meetings with Remarkable Men plays Prince Lubovedsky, himself briefly retreated from his career after this picture, in favor of Eastern meditation.