Tribes of Cologne
(Germany 2010)
The members of the Kölner Stämme (Cologne Tribes) imitate foreign
cultures such as Native American Indians Vikings, Romans and most notably
Huns and Mongolians as a leisure time activity. But what motivates entire
families, together with neighbours, friends and co-workers to collectively
submerge themselves into the life at the court of Attila the Hun or Ghenghis
Khan?
To answer this question anthropologist and filmmaker Anja Dreschke accompanied
the Cologne Tribes for several years in the course of her ethnographic field
research. Thus she realised an ethnographic long-term study providing a „thick
description“ of historical reenactment as an outstanding cultural phenomenon.
Genre: Documentary film
Writer and Director: Anja Dreschke
Format: 89min / 35mm / color
Co-Production: WDR / Jutta Krug
Funded by: Filmstiftung NRW
Distribution: Real Fiction
Festivals: 12th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film 2011, London
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