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'Tom meets Zizou Not a Midsummer Night's Dream' (German title: 'Tom Meets Zizou Kein Sommermrchen') is a documentary film by Aljoscha Pause made in 2011. The film deals with the life and career of professional football player Thomas Broich.

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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 Fuball-Bundesliga which began promisingly but ended after numerous professional and personal setbacks with a transfer to the Australian club Brisbane Roar[http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/soccer/drive-for-fame-a-bumpy-road-for-broich/story-e6frepmf-1226176630783 "Drive for fame a bumpy road for Brisbane Roar star Thomas Broich"] by Marco Monteverde, 'The Courier-Mail' (26 October 2011)[http://www.zeit.de/sport/2011-03/interview-broich-film-brisbane "Ich habe Verachtung gegenber meinem Beruf gesprt"], 'Die Zeit' (March 2011) 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 Nights Dream' debuted as the opening film of the 8th International Football Film Festival 11mm in Berlin on 25 March 2011.[http://www.11freunde.de/international/137282/tom_meets_zizou__kein_sommermaerchen 'Zu Besuch bei Filmemacher Aljoscha Pause: Tom meets Zizou Kein Sommermrchen'] , 11freunde.de, 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,'Tom Meets Zizou' at [http://2011.alekino.com/en/zgloszenie/tom-meets-zizou 29th International Young Audience Film Festival Ale Kino] the Thinking Football Film Festival in Bilbao,'Tom meets Zizou' at [http://www.thinkingfootballfilmfestival.com/es/programa Thinking Football Filmfestival 2013] 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, nicknamed "Zizou".

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The film was honored as especially worthwhile by the German Film and Media Evaluation institute (Deutschen Film- und Medienbewertung, FBW)"Prdikat: Besonders Wertvoll" fr 'Tom Meets Zizou' - [http://www.fbw-filmbewertung.com/uploads/fbwdb_film/infopdf/6fda74afa1382b615b0fa0c4c8a9bafebb03446f.pdf Press release of Deutschen Film- und Medienbewertung] (PDF) for the following reasons:

In addition, 'Tom meets Zizou Not a Midsummer Nights Dream' was awarded the 'VDS Television Prize' in 2012[http://www.journalistenpreise.de/?id=gewinner&pid=595 Winner: VDS-Fernsehpreis 2012] [https://www.dfb.de/news/de/d-dfb-kulturstiftung/wirklich-nah-dran-sein-aljoscha-pause-ueber-trainer/42288.html '"Wirklich nah dran sein": Aljoscha Pause ber "Trainer!"'] Interview on various topics including the VDS Television Prize on dfb.de, accessed on am 2 June 2014 (for the 90-minute TV version), and was nominated in 2013 as the best football film of all time.[http://11-mm.de/aktuell.php?blogid=11&archive=2012-12 '"Die Nominierungen zum Besten Fuballfilm aller Zeiten stehen fest"'] News of 20 December 2012 on 11mm.de, accessed on 2 June 2014

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