''Tom meets Zizou – Not a Midsummer Night's Dream'' (German title: ''Tom Meets Zizou – Kein Sommermärchen'') is a
documentary film by
Aljoscha Pause
Aljoscha Pause is a German filmmaker, director, TV journalist, writer, and producer. He is a member of the Deutsche Filmakademie and the German Academy for Football Culture.
Background
Aljoscha Pause was born on 24 January 1972 in Bonn, Germa ...
made in 2011. The film deals with the life and career of professional football player
Thomas Broich
Thomas Broich (born 29 January 1981) is a German former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. A SpVgg Unterhaching youth product, Broich went on to play for Wacker Burghausen, Borussia Mönchengladbach, 1. FC Köln, and ...
.
Background and story
From 2003 to 2011, Aljoscha Pause made a long-term film documentary about former Bundesliga professional Thomas Broich. It traces Broich's career in the German
Fußball-Bundesliga
The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of the German football league system, the Bundesliga is Germany's primary footbal ...
which began promisingly but ended after numerous professional and personal setbacks with a transfer to the Australian club
Brisbane Roar in 2010.
The result of some 40 meetings and interviews that generated more than 100 hours of raw footage over eight years, the 135-minute cinema documentary entitled ''Tom meets Zizou – Not a Midsummer Night’s Dream'' debuted as the opening film of the 8th International Football Film Festival “11mm” in Berlin on 25 March 2011.
The film was distributed nationwide by ''mindjazz pictures'' with an opening date of 28 July 2011. The project enjoyed the support of the DFB Cultural Foundation.
The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray in late 2011 and was screened at international festivals including the International Young Audience Film Festival in Posen, the Thinking Football Film Festival in Bilbao, The CINEfoot Festival in Rio de Janeiro and the Flutlicht Film Festival in Basel (on 1 February 2014 in a double feature with “TRAINER!” on the topic of “Failure”). “Tom meets Zizou” has been translated into English, Polish, Spanish and Portuguese. German broadcaster WDR showed a 90-minute TV version on 21 August 2012.
The film's title is a reference to Broich's former email address, tommeetszizou@aol.com and Broich's then-hero
Zinedine Zidane
Zinedine Yazid Zidane (; born 23 June 1972), popularly known as Zizou, is a French professional football manager and former player who played as an attacking midfielder. He most recently coached Spanish club Real Madrid and is one of the most ...
, nicknamed "Zizou".
Reviews
Awards
The film was honored as “especially worthwhile” by the German Film and Media Evaluation institute (Deutschen Film- und Medienbewertung, FBW) for the following reasons:
In addition, ''Tom meets Zizou – Not a Midsummer Night’s Dream'' was awarded the ''VDS Television Prize'' in 2012 (for the 90-minute TV version), and was nominated in 2013 as the “best football film of all time.”
''"Die Nominierungen zum Besten Fußballfilm aller Zeiten stehen fest"''
News of 20 December 2012 on 11mm.de, accessed on 2 June 2014
References
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''Tom Meets Zizou – Kein Sommermärchen''
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2011 films
Documentary films about association football
2011 documentary films
Documentary films about sportspeople
German documentary films
2010s German films