traumzeit (dreamtime)
Franz Reichle's DREAMTIME was one of the highlights of this year's Solothurn Film Days. Planned as the filmic documentation of a journey to find the last nomadic shamans in East Siberia, the film instead captures the failed search for these people, whose culture is characterised by living in harmony with nature. The well-structured film skilfully portrays the longing of overly 'civilised' people for simplicity and meaning in life. Like no other travel film on an 'exotic' subject, the theme and the interest of filmmaker and spectators reflects back toward the public: DREAMTIME places our paradoxical living situation, caught between an affluent society and archaic longings, in the centre of the filmic experience.

Robert Richter in DIE WELT, Hamburg, February 11, 1992



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Switzerland, Russia 1992.

producer, Script writer, Director: Franz Reichle; Camera: Peter Liechti; Video, Photograph, Sound: Franz Reichle; Editing: Loredana Cristelli; Music: Ritual of a Shaman, traditional songs and trump. Executive Producer: Franziska Reck; Partner in Russia: ISVESTIA

A production of the Franz Reichle Film production and the Balzli & Cie, in Co-Production with Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Bayerischer Rundfunk and the Swiss TV.

Solothurn Film Festival. Screenings: Swiss Cinema. Swiss TV, German TVs.


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photo on the left: mikhail karpushkin, franz reichle, volodya torgonov (left to right) in karatal, baunt. rayon, buryatia, eastern sibiria.
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photo on the right: volodya torgonov, franz reichle, igor dangeyev (left to right) near rossoshino, baunt. rayon, buryatia, eastern sibiria.  
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