Thatta Kedona: The Toy Village of Pakistan

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Inge Keindl

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Christa Dönnhöfer

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Senta Siller

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Norbert Pintsch

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Tobias Nohl

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Bernhard Steck

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Karola Groch

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Writing	Writer	Joachim Polzer
Directing	Director	Joachim Polzer
Camera	Director of Photography	Joachim Polzer
	Still Photographer	Norbert Pintsch Tobias Nohl Christian Rosenbaum
Production	Producer	Joachim Polzer
Editing	Editor	Joachim Polzer
	Consulting Editor	Eberhard Nuffer Petr Szczepanik Ricardo Viviani Renate Walter-Herrnkind
Sound	Music	Sonja Drakulich
	Sound Director	Christian Rosenbaum
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