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Slumming

Switzerland, Germany, Austria

2006

100 Min
Color
1.85:1
Czech, German, Indonesian
Subtitled in English
Audio in Czech
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DIR Michael Glawogger

PROD Erich Lackner, Peter Wirthensohn

SCR Michael Glawogger, Barbara Albert

DP Martin Gschlacht

CAST Paulus Manker, August Diehl, Michael Ostrowski, Pia Hierzegger, Maria Bill, Martina Zinner, Brigitte Kren

ED Christof Schertenleib

MUSIC Walter W. Cikan, Daniel Jakob, Peter von Siebenthal, Till Wyler

Berlinale (Competition), Transilvania, Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema), London (Film on the Square), San Francisco (World Cinema), Melbourne (International Panorama), Vancouver

Synopsis

“Slumming” – that is what Sebastian and Alex call their nightly forays through the most cheap clubs, liquor bars, and cafés. There, they pick up women and afterwards post photos of them on the internet. The impoverished poet and alcoholic Kallmann becomes their next victim; they take him to the Czech Republic and leave him behind on his own. But then, Sebastian’s new girlfriend, the elementary teacher Pia, sets out to find Kallmann although she does not know him. —filmportal.de

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Michael Glawogger

Born in Graz, Austria, in 1959, Michael Glawogger is a traveling filmmaker. Not only does he literally journey around the world for his documentaries, he also moves back and forth between forms and genres, between photography and writing, between gentler and more forceful tones. He graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute and the Vienna Film Academy and has since worked as a director, writer, and cinematographer in Vienna, Bangkok, and Znojmo. He plans to shoot in Poland and Bangladesh in the near future. —glawogger.com 

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TIFF Report: SLUMMING Review

By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
Michael Glawogger’s Slumming is a fascinating character study, specifically looking at how people function outside their closed little worlds they form around themselves. The film delves into not only
→ read on Twitchfilm.com

TIFF Report: SLUMMING Review

By Twitchfilm.net on July 16, 2010
Michael Glawogger’s Slumming is a fascinating character study, specifically looking at how people function outside their closed little worlds they form around themselves. The film delves into not only
→ read on Twitchfilm.net

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