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.
Inge Keindl
Self
Christa Dönnhöfer
Self
Senta Siller
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Thatta Kedona - Das Spielzeug-Dorf in Pakistan
May 8, 2005
3h 3m
8.0
Joachim Polzer
Joachim Polzer
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Polzer Media Group GmbH
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Self
Norbert Pintsch
Self
Tobias Nohl
Self
Bernhard Steck
Self
Karola Groch
Self
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