The Holy Man

Each session ends with Birinchi swooning into a cataleptic trance, requiring that he be carried unconscious back to his room. It's a gag favored by witch doctors and mediums, even Peter Finch's news anchor Howard Beale in Sidney Lumet's Network (1976). The dramatic ritual lets Birinchi Baba evade inconvenient questions, but also provides Satya's friends with a clever means to expose him as a fraud.

Plato is claimed to have been a Roman astrologer instead of a Greek philosopher.

There is an Italian edition of this film on DVD (Extra Movie in "IL MONDO DI APU"), re-edited with the contribution of film historian Riccardo Cusin. This version is also available for streaming on some platforms.