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Thatta Kedona: The Toy Village of Pakistan

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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Thatta Kedona: The Toy Village of Pakistan

May 8, 2005
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Directing

Joachim Polzer
Director

Writing

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Joachim Polzer
Producer

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Tobias Nohl
Still Photographer
Joachim Polzer
Director of Photography
Norbert Pintsch
Still Photographer
Christian Rosenbaum
Still Photographer

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Petr Szczepanik
Consulting Editor
Eberhard Nuffer
Consulting Editor
Renate Walter-Herrnkind
Consulting Editor
Ricardo Viviani
Consulting Editor

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