Thatta Kedona: The Toy Village of Pakistan (2005)
Thatta Kedona: The Toy Village of Pakistan (2005)
Thatta Kedona is a remarkable village in rural Pakistan. Since 1991 36 volunteers from Western countries have visited and coached the village people in a help to self help project. Dolls and tin toys reflecting regional cultures of Pakistan are products which generate cash income for the farming families through the local cooperative-like NGO. On the other side those volunteers from Western countries are also having their fun by working in a rural village of Islamic society with strong overlays by the traditional culture of Indus Valley, the Mogul period, Hindu culture and the influences of British-India. Hence the playfulness of a "toy village" is on both sides. For the villagers by producing toys for cash in a not-yet industrialized region avoiding rural exodus to the big cites (and thus avoiding the poverty slums that are generated by migration). And joy for Western people being confronted by their own history stages in present time within a foreign context.

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Inge Keindl Inge Keindl As: Self
Christa Dönnhöfer Christa Dönnhöfer As: Self
Senta Siller Senta Siller As: Self
Norbert Pintsch Norbert Pintsch As: Self
Tobias Nohl Tobias Nohl As: Self
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Thatta Kedona is a remarkable village in rural Pakistan. Since 1991 36 volunteers from Western countries have visited and coached the village people in a help to self help project. Dolls and tin toys reflecting regional cultures of Pakistan are products which generate cash income for the farming families through the local cooperative-like NGO. On the other side those volunteers from Western countries are also having their fun by working in a rural village of Islamic society with strong overlays by the traditional culture of Indus Valley, the Mogul period, Hindu culture and the influences of British-India. Hence the playfulness of a "toy village" is on both sides. For the villagers by producing toys for cash in a not-yet industrialized region avoiding rural exodus to the big cites (and thus avoiding the poverty slums that are generated by migration). And joy for Western people being confronted by their own history stages in present time within a foreign context.


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Genres: Documentary

Language: Deutsch

Release Date: 08 May 2005

Country: DE

Runtime: 183m

Company Credits

Company: Polzer Media Group GmbH

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Edited By

Joachim Polzer

Joachim Polzer

Editor

Eberhard Nuffer

Eberhard Nuffer

Consulting Editor

Petr Szczepanik

Petr Szczepanik

Consulting Editor

Ricardo Viviani

Ricardo Viviani

Consulting Editor

Renate Walter-Herrnkind

Renate Walter-Herrnkind

Consulting Editor

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Joachim Polzer

Joachim Polzer

Director of Photography

Norbert Pintsch

Norbert Pintsch

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Tobias Nohl

Tobias Nohl

Still Photographer

Christian Rosenbaum

Christian Rosenbaum

Still Photographer

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