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A fictionalized version of Tahimik’s own attempt to cash in on the Munich Olympics (a venture that was disrupted by the infamous Black September massacre), Turumba focuses on a village that is hired by a German entrepreneur to modify their local papier-maché festival figurines into Waldi dachshund mascots for the 1972 Olympics. Commissioned as part of the German broadcaster ZDF’s series of films inspired by phrases from the Lord’s Prayer — Tahimik was

assigned “Give us this day our daily bread” — Turumba is the director’s most straightforward film, similar in tone to the work of Les Blank (a fellow Herzog friend and another of Tahimik’s passionate champions). Despite this more conventional surface, Tahimik transforms the film into yet another of his sly studies of capitalism’s alienation and exploitation of traditional culture,

intertwined with an incisive self-reflection and -critique of his own role in this process.