SlummingAustria / Germany / Swaziland
2006, 100min.
 Script: Barbara Albert, Michael Glawogger, Dir.: Michael Glawogger, Dir. of Phot.: Martin Gschlacht, Art.Dir.: Maria Gruber, Sound Mix.: Luc Yersin, Edit. Christof Schertenleib:, Prod.: Erich Lackner, Peter Wirthensohn.
Cast: Paulus Manker, August Diehl, Michael Ostrowski, Pia Hierzegger.
Rich slacker Sebastian's favorite sport is slumming in Vienna's seedy bars in search of quirky characters to toy with. His romance with Pia is jeopardized when she becomes angry about Sebastian's latest act of flippant cruelty: he and his flatmate Alex picked up an unconscious drunk off the street and dumped him in the wintry Czech countryside without any ID. Pia decides to rescue this lost man, Kallmann, a down-and out poet... | Glawogger, Michael Michael Glawogger born 03.12.1959, Graz, Austria.
Studied at San Francisco Art Institute and Vienna Film Academy. In addition to being a director, he is a cameraman and writer. He has regularly cooperated with the documentary maker Ulrich Seidl. In 1995, he recieved the Vienna Film Prize for Die Ameisenstrase.
Filmography
Tod eines Lesenden (1984), Die Stadt der anderen (1989), Krieg in Wien (1989), Ant Street (Die Ameisenstraße, 1995), Movies in the Mind (Kino im Kopf, 1996), Megacities (1998), France, Here We Come! (Frankreich, wir kommen,1999), State of the Nation: Austria in Six Chapters (Zur Lage: Österreich in sechs Kapiteln, 2002), Nacktschnecken (2004), Workingman's Death (2005), Slumming (2006).
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