Philip Glass: Satyagraha  (1983)

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Philip Glass: Satyagraha

Composer Philip Glass embraced his interest in both Indian music and the political and spiritual philosophies of Mahatma Gandhi in his opera Satyagraha, and this home video release preserves a German production staged in 1983. Philip Glass: Satyagraha presents a stylized interpretation of the period when Gandhi developed his philosophy of "Satyagraha" (or "passive resistance"), and moves back and forth through time so that the audience sees both Gandhi's revolutionary actions and the lives of three other men who studied his teachings -- Leo Tolstoy, Rabindranath Tagore, and Martin Luther King Jr. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide