Tom meets Zizou - no summer fairy tale

Movie
Original title	Tom meets Zizou - no summer fairy tale
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2011
length	135 minutes
Rod
Director	Alyosha pause
script	Alyosha pause
production	Hans-Peter Klein, ; Aljoscha Pause
music	Roland Meyer de Voltaire
camera	Martin Nowak, ; Robert Schramm, ; Jochen Wagener
cut	Anne Pannbacker

Tom meets Zizou - No summer fairy tale is a documentary by Aljoscha Pause from 2011 . The film deals with the life and career of the professional footballer Thomas Broich .

Background and plot

From 2003 Aljoscha Pause made a long-term documentary about the former Bundesliga professional Thomas Broich until 2011 . It describes Broich's Bundesliga career, which began promisingly, but after numerous sporting and personal setbacks and disappointments, it came to a temporary end with a move to the Australian club Brisbane Roar in 2010.

The result of around 40 meetings in these eight years, at which more than 100 hours of raw material was recorded, a 135-minute film with the title Tom meets Zizou - No summer fairy tale , was released on March 25, 2011 as the opening film at the 8th International Football Film Festival 11mm premiered in Berlin.

The nationwide theatrical release of mindjazz pictures was on July 28, 2011. The project was supported by the DFB-Kulturstiftung . From the end of 2011, it was released on DVD and Blu-ray as well as other, partly international festival screenings, including in Poznan at the International Young Audience Film Festival , at the Thinking Football Film Festival in Bilbao , and the CINEfoot Festival in Rio de Janeiro , the Floodlight Film Festival in Basel (on February 1, 2014 together with a trainer! For the theme day “Failure”) or the Joga Bonito! Film Festival 2014 in Vienna. In 2015 the film was screened at the Football Film Festival Australia in Brisbane and in 2018 and at the Football Film Festival in Beijing. By Tom Meets Zizou therefore now translated into English, Polish, Spanish and Portuguese exist. The WDR showed a 90-minute television version on August 21, 2012. The VoD release took place in Germany on June 12, 2014.

The title of the film is based on Broich's former email address. It was "tommeetszizou@aol.com" and referred to his role model at the time, Zinédine Zidane .

Reviews

"It's lucky that such films still exist."

- Dieterschlag : Editor-in-Chief of Funkkorrespondenz

“Tom meets Zizou is much more than a documentary. It's a piece of contemporary history. It is a close-up and long-term exposure that has never been seen before. With the best national player that Germany never had. "

- Bernd Sobolla : Deutschlandradio Kultur

“Without frills, like a precision tool, the film shows this search, finding, failure and getting up again. The camera is always there when it matters. With every step that the film advances in time, one is surprised, captivated and touched anew. And Aljoscha Pause creates another unique portrait that will permanently change our image of football. He's got used to it after making films about alcohol or homosexuality in Germans' favorite sport. And now the quote from Jean-Luc Godard has to be used, saying that making a film is in itself a revolutionary act. "

- Marcel Ahrenholz : Player - The cinema magazine for Leipzig

“It is often said of modern football that it lacks“ real types ”- the Netzers, the Effenbergs, the Baslers. With Thomas Broich, one of them left the German football stage quietly, quietly and secretly last summer. 'Tom Meets Zizou' will stay. "

- Lars-Christian Daniels : Filmstarts.de

“A witty study of an often mindless industry. With breaks, twists, lessons - and a healing finale. With a rare openness Broich exposes empty phrases and hypocrisy of the Bundesliga in the film. "

- Ronny Blaschke : Time Online

“The interesting and illuminating, largely chronologically developed portrait of an unadjusted individualist. Of course, the film does not provide a fundamental analysis of the structures of professional football. "

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

The documentation received the rating: Particularly valuable from the German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) . The reasoning states:

“Director Aljoscha Pause accompanied his charismatic and extraordinary protagonist with his camera for almost ten years. The ups and downs of an athlete are documented who, through his intelligent and reflective statements, hold up a mirror not only to himself but also to the whole business with round leather. This is sometimes bitingly ironic and sometimes disarmingly honest. And not only emotionally and excitingly charged at the cleverly designed end - just like a really good football game. "

- German film and media rating

In addition, Tom meets Zizou - Kein Sommermärchen received the VDS television award in 2012 (for the 90-minute television version) and in 2013 the nomination for “Best Football Film of All Time”.

In the ranking of the best football films of all time on Filmstarts.de - on the occasion of the Football World Cup 2014 - Tom meets Zizou took first place: "Football film specialist Aljoscha Pause created with" Tom Meets Zizou "a rousing and highly entertaining documentary that the tough professional -Football business unmasked and at the same time delivers a highly interesting portrait of an extraordinary person - an outstanding film. "