Complete film, 82 minutes. Directed by Louis van Gasteren. Principle photography for this film began in 1964 and stalled in 1969. Filming was revived in 2011 and the film finally premiered at the Netherlands Film Festival in 2012 on Van Gasteren's 90th birthday. Van Gasteren passed away four years later in 2016 at the age of 93.
The cameraman wound up being more famous than the director. Jan de Bont, who did all the important photography in the film including of Meher Baba and Timothy Leary, went on to shoot Basic Instinct (1992) with Sharon Stone and direct Speed (1994) and Twister (1996).
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| Jan de Bont filming Baba in 1967 |
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| Louis van Gasteren meeting Baba in 1967 |
Nema Aviona at IMDB. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144449/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1
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