Tom Meets Zizou

Tom meets Zizou - No Summer Fairy Tale is a documentary by Alyosha break from the year 2011, the film deals with the life and career of the professional soccer player Thomas Broich. .

Background and action

In 2003, the documentary Alyosha break began a long-term study, designed as a series of interviews with the then 22 -year-old soccer player Thomas Broich, who had just made ​​the leap into a professional team. This was followed up in the year 2011, around 40 meetings in which over 100 hours of footage were taken.

The resulting documentary describes the Bundesliga career Broich, which began auspiciously first, but after numerous sporting and personal setbacks and disappointments with a change to the Australian club Brisbane Roar in 2010 was a temporary end.

The film's title is inspired by the former e- mail address of Broich. It read, " [email protected] " and referred to his former role model Zinedine Zidane.

The film premiered on 25 March 2011 as the opening film of the Berlin Football Film Festival Premiere 11mm.

Reviews

" A witty study of an often mindless industry. With fractures, phrases, lessons - and a salutary final. With a rare openness Broich unmasked in the movie phrases and hypocrisy of the Bundesliga. "

" The interesting and enlightening, largely chronologically developed portrait of a maladjusted individuals. A basic analysis of the structures of professional football does not deliver the film here, of course. "

Awards

From the German Film and Media Review (FBW ) to document the predicate was particularly valuable. In the explanatory memorandum

" Director Alyosha break has accompanied his charismatic and extraordinary protagonists almost ten years with the camera. It documents the ups and downs of an athlete who holds up with its intelligent and statements reflected not only themselves but the whole business with the round leather mirror. This is sometimes bitingly ironic and sometimes disarmingly honest. "