Thomas, Thomas

Thomas, Thomas is an award-winning mockumentary by Corinna Liedtke, the nich as part of the episode movie mine is - Seven views of the Ruhr in 2010 was born.

Action

The somewhat unworldly mid-thirties Wolfgang Weber, son and grandson of miners, is a bookworm and city archivist in Castrop -Rauxel. His two passions, the biography of the Irish mining pioneer William Thomas Mulvany and Indian culture, he is able to connect to unusual manner: Wolfgang Weber attempts to prove through intensive research that a known him, acting in Castrop -Rauxel physician, founder and operator of a Ayurveda and Medicine center named Thomas Vallomtharayil was reborn Mulvany. For this, he even travels to Sri Kamadchi - Ampal temple in Hamm- Uentrop to get spiritual help. The film leaves open whether the story is documentary or fiction.

Reviews

"The film moves between past and present, between fiction and reality. Industrial revolution and post-industrial health awareness be set to abstruse manner with each other. Entertaining the media orthodoxy of the passive viewer is put to the test and subtly criticized the former as current social conditions. "

" Corinna Liedtke has succeeded, the jury delighted and confused at the same time to leave. The selection committee was probably not quite sure how this short film would be assigned and provides him with Others in the festival catalog ' on.

The jury has decided to see the fake documentary feature film. This she remembered more easily when the actor of Wolfgang Weber, city archivist in Castrop -Rauxel, so compelling and inviting to identify acts that you would relieve him even more unlikely hypotheses ready. "

" Credible and playful developed a film of the past and present reality of the Ruhr area to an incredible story, supported by the friendly, convincing protagonist. "

"And if an industrious city archivist from Castrop- Rauxel suddenly discovered in Thomas, Thomas, that the head of the ayurvedic center Thomas Vallomtharayil is the reincarnation of the industry pioneer Thomas Mulvany, then simply want to believe that idea. And so it is really only a question of your own setting, what you ultimately want to look as real. "

Awards

  • 2010: Honorable mention for Thomas, Thomas on the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival
  • 2010: Best Feature Film award for Thomas, Thomas at the 10th edition of the Flensburg Short Film Festival
  • 2010: Jury Prize nomination in the festival series NRW competition at the European Short Film Festival Cologne unlimited for Thomas, Thomas
  • 2010: Jury Prize for Best film on the La.Meko Film Festival Landau
  • 2011: Winner of the Team -Work Awards at the Filmwinter

Find out more

  • During the shooting of the film published press articles, which among other things, Wolfgang Weber as a real figure reported ..
  • In a further search with the title Wolfgang Weber - A new case Wolfgang Weber is engaged in the Castrop- Rauxeler marketplace where an unusual number of accidents happen.
  • The teaser Wolfgang Weber - New cases from Castrop- Rauxel shows new research by the archivist.
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