Marwencol (2010)
Genre: Documentary / Biography
Duration: 83 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Jeff Malmberg
Starst: Mark Hogancamp, Emmanuel Nneji and Edda Hogancamp
IMDb score:
7,5 (3.788)
Releasedate: 12 March 2010
Marwencol plot
"When his world was stolen, Mark Hogancamp made a world of his own."
Documentary about the fantasy world of Mark Hogancamp. After being knocked into a brain-damaging coma by five men, he builds a 1/6th-scale World War II town in his backyard. He names the town Marwencol and has dolls inhabited to represent his friends and family. He photographs the many interactions that take place between them. The 'game' improves his hand-eye coordination and helps him cope with the violent attack. Then his work is discovered by the art world...
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Banjo
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- 2046 messages
- 4312 votes
It was funny, interesting, strange, sad, strange, and impressive,
And I've never seen anything like it before...
4 stars for this special man
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otherfool
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- 18537 messages
- 3404 votes
Touching guy creates his own dream world after a personal drama and takes really beautiful (!!!) photos of it. It is almost a pity that the documentary eventually gets away with him and Hogencamp finds himself again and gets lost in New York at an exhibition of his work.
3*.
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mrklm
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- 11629 messages
- 10041 votes
Mark Hogancamp suffered severe brain damage when he was assaulted by a group of youths outside the cafe. He also lost most of his memory. Mark found a unique form of self-therapy in 'building' Marwencol, a fictional village in Belgium during the Second World War with several miniature dolls as residents and a heroic soldier as Mark's alter ego. By telling self-made stories with the help of a simple camera, he gives his own life structure and meaning. Family, friends and acquaintances tell us which character is based on them and we follow Hogancamp in the run-up to an exhibition of his work. An extra exciting event, because Mark is extremely shy of people. Malmberg tells the story through a clever combination of conversations and a selection from the thousands of photographs Hogancamp took to draw the parallels between the reality and the 'fiction' of Marwencol. Mark's story was made into a movie in 2018 as Welcome to Marwen starring Steve Carell.
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