N A M A S T É
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A journey across India
following the footprints
of Mahatma Gandhi

Audio visual show

Idea and realization: Peter Rühe
Photography: Eduard Friedl
Scholarly advisers:
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Lütt
Prof. Dr. Michael Blume

The multi-projector audio visual show introduces the audience to today's India through current images and it gives an impression of the historic figure of Mahatma Gandhi by presenting rare historic images.

The journey follows the course of Gandhi's life: Porbandar, Rajkot, Ahmedabad, Wardha, Bombay and Delhi are the stations where the present life is shown alternately with those days when Gandhi lived and worked there. The 400 photographs of today's India were taken by Eduard Friedl, a professional photographer and director of the photo studio of the Technical University of Berlin. The historic images of Mahatma Gandhi and India's freedom movement derive from the photo archive of Gandhi's foremost biographer Vithalbhai K. Jhaveri. This collection is the best of its kind in terms of quality and quantity. For the first time slides have been prepared from selected 400 photographs of this unique collection. The images are supported by sounds of today's India as well as original sound-documents of historic events, such as speeches of India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi.

The show has a length of 110 min. and is available in English, Hindi and German on VHS video in PAL and NTSC.

Watch it on Google Video:    English    German    Hindi

  The Journey
· Gandhi's speech
· Theme music
· Greetings
· Gujarat today
· Gandhi's biography 1869 - 1887
· Rajkot today
· Gandhi's biography 1888 - 1918
· Harijan Ashram, Ahmedabad, today
· Gandhi's biography 1919 - 1930
· Ahmedabad today
· Gandhi's biography 1930 -1938
· Wardha today
· Gandhi's biography 1939 - 1943
· Mumbai (Bombay) today
· Gandhi's biography 1944 - 1948
· Delhi today
· Farewell
· Portrait sequence
· Credits

Peter Rühe
lives in Berlin and Mumbai (Bombay / India).
He specialized in the conservation of visual material of Mahatma Gandhi. In various countries Peter Rühe has presented multimedia events on Gandhi and he has worked for several TV productions. Peter Rühe is the founder of GandhiServe Foundation.

Eduard Friedl
is the director of the photo studio at the Technical University of Berlin. He tours Asia extensively and he has prepared audio visual shows about Thailand, China and India. In his photo studio the rare photo collections of Vithalbhai K. Jhaveri and Kanu Gandhi received a preservation treatment and were reproduced.

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Lütt
worked as historian on Gandhi at the universities of Kiel and Heidelberg (Germany) before he became the head of the department at Institute for South Asian Studies at Humboldt University of Berlin. He has covered various aspects of the personality of Mahatma Gandhi, his life and work through lectures and publications.

Prof. Dr. Michael Blume
has prepared a German version of Vithalbhai K. Jhaveri's documentary film on Gandhi. Prof. Blume's book Satyagraha - Yoga and Resistance of Gandhi became a milestone in the German Gandhi literature. Today Prof. Blume works as consultant for business administration.