Awake: The Life of Yogananda(2014)

🎬87 min
📅2014-10-10
🎭Documentary
6.8/10

Overview

An unconventional biography by Oscar nominee Paola di Florio and Sundance winner Lisa Leeman about Hindu mystic Paramahansa Yogananda who brought yoga and meditation to the West in 1920 and authored the spiritual classic "Autobiography of a Yogi," which became the go-to book for seekers from George Harrison to Steve Jobs.

Production

Counterpoint Films

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Cast

Anupam Kher
as Narrator (voice)
Russell Simmons
as Self
George Harrison
as Self (archive footage)
Ravi Shankar
as Self
Krishna Das
as Self
Hitendra Wadhwa
as Self
Mas Vidal
as Self
Li Miao Tseng
as Self
Francis Clooney
as Self
Varun Soni
as Self