Slumming
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Slumming |
| Country of production | Austria , Switzerland |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 14 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michael Glawogger |
| script | Michael Glawogger, Barbara Albert |
| production |
Erich Lackner , Peter Wirthensohn |
| music |
Peter von Siebenthal , Daniel Jakob , Till Wyler , Walter W. Cikan |
| camera | Martin Gschlacht |
| cut | Christof Schertenleib |
| occupation | |
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Slumming is an Austrian - Swiss fictional film from 2006. It premiered on February 10, 2006 in the competition at the Berlinale . It was released in theaters in Austria on November 24, 2006 and in Germany on April 19, 2007.
In Austria the film reached 10,292 moviegoers.
action
The street poet Kallmann drunk and loudly wanders through wintry Vienna and tries to sell his poems to passers-by. Now and then he visited the prostitute Herta, his partner, in their common ancestor beisl sitting at the bar. The two yuppies Sebastian and Alex, on the other hand, spend their evenings in shabby pubs and cafes to make fun of the lives of those present. They call this "slumming". One day on the way home they meet Kallmann, drunk and motionless on a bench in front of Vienna's Westbahnhof . Without further ado they decide to play a prank on him and drive him in the trunk across the border to the Czech Republic. There they put it on a bench in front of the Znojmo train station .
When Kallmann wakes up the next morning, he no longer understands the world. The environment is unknown to him and the people speak a foreign language. After all the evidence suggests that he must be abroad, he tries to return to Vienna. With more randomly than purposefully begged money, he gets on the next bus - which, however, does not go to Vienna, but to the deep Czech provinces. Kallmann initially tries his hand at hitchhiking, but then turns to a snowy field when faced with a police check. After spending the night in a hut by a frozen lake, he spends the following night in the stable of a farm. There he is discovered by the farmers the next day, gets something to eat and can call Herta on the phone.
Pia, one of Sebastian's numerous Internet acquaintances, has in the meantime found out about the "joke", finds Herta and sets off with her to find Kallmann, who, however, now finds his way home with a clever idea. Most recently, Sebastian found his “Megaslum” in Jakarta, after starting a spontaneous long-distance journey for fear of being held accountable.
Reviews
"A top-class comedy, almost too bitterly black for the genre, which does not offer a specific perspective of the characters and is always a source of irritation due to its complexity."
“Michael Glawogger's films bring a breath of fresh air to Austrian cinema. The trained documentary filmmaker Glawogger only seems to be in his element when he frees himself from the characteristic eagerness to listen to his directors' compatriots. It has nothing to do with rejection or arrogance. His clearly structured way of working as a documentary filmmaker has probably led him to emancipate himself accordingly in the feature film genre. Individual elements of 'Slumming', however, sound familiar: the inconspicuous, sadistic young people appearing in a double pack (perhaps reminiscent of 'Funny Games' by Michael Haneke?), The parallel storylines, the biting humor and the clinical severity of the scenes . […] With the choice of his actors Michael Glawogger shows a welcome curiosity and flexibility: The differentiated, captivating way with which August Diehl from Germany gives the dandy does not at all fit the straightforwardness of many of his Austrian colleagues. And the cursing, downright eccentric Paulus Manker literally unhinges his role. "
“In addition to Diehl, the Austrian Paulus Manker is brilliant. 'Slumming' is an anti-development novel with a strong cast: Instead of learning from experience, Sebastian remains trapped in his vanity. Convincing cinema from Austria in the competition. "
“'Slumming' by Michael Glawogger [...] openly displays his critical concerns - despite all the rigor of the staging, it is, however, a cosmetic project. The corpse of cultural pessimism is beautifully made up again: the bourgeois subject, presented in Sebastian (August Diehl), a rich snob, is irredeemably lost. Instinctively and latently violent behind its cultivated facade, it drives its moral downfall. That sounds like Houellebecq for the poor and looks exactly the same [...] After all, only the alcoholic stray is capable of purification, the landlord seeks his salvation somewhere in Asia. The film is at least 15 years late; Christian Kracht ('Fiberland') already literally put the nihilistic bourgeois on trial in this country in the early 1990s. The swan song for the dandy as a reactionary has meanwhile become the bourgeoisie themselves. Today, if at all, citizens appear again as doers, not as doubters or cynics. "
“[…] Two boys who are too big romp through Vienna, where they play very uncomfortable jokes until they get to the wrong woman. Barbara Albert, who made the great 'Nordrand', co-wrote the script; 'Slumming' is not quite as strong as 'Nordrand', but it hits the spot, and some scenes are simply terrific. [...] 'Slumming' is more serious than gloomy, melancholic but not humorless, and Pia Hierzegger, the wrong woman who tries to put things right, gives the story a nice drive because she is so mercilessly grown up . "
“[…] 'Slumming' tells of the meeting of two worlds, but because what it shows is not only spatially much closer to us than the mouth of the James River, Glawogger can do without aesthetic detours. The film cannot keep up the harshness and speed of its beginning, but because it manages to interest us in its characters, many of its weaknesses are forgiven. It's cold in 'Slumming', just like in wintry Berlin, but this cold also sharpens the sense of the essentials. What money cannot buy. "
“Michael Glawogger's film 'Slumming' is a one-man show for Paulus Manker - and city fairy tales about night characters. […] As in other recent domestic feature films, Vienna becomes the intersection of characters from different milieus. Glawogger makes this clear by aligning his film with a social practice: Slumming is about expanding your combat zone. Sebastian (August Diehl) and Alex (Michael Ostrowski), two young men with a lot of free time, prefer to go to places that are below their shift to 'meet people you would otherwise never meet': shady dives, red light bars, discos with a high proportion of foreigners.
Because they believe they are better, they make a game of it - and break convention with late-pubescent jokes. Sebastian, a foreigner in Vienna as a German, goes even further with his cynical actions. He meets with women, then listens, bored, to their monologues and photographs them under their skirts. His amoral action aims at the cooperation of chance. He sets things in motion but doesn't care what the outcome is.
Glawogger and his screenwriters (including Barbara Albert) work with artificial characters who act out their moral points of view rather than exaggerate them. They come across as bizarre rather than threatening. "
production
The film was produced by the Viennese Lotus Film in cooperation with the Austrian film production companies coop99 and Abraxas as well as with the Swiss Dschoint Ventschr . The film was shot between January and March 2005 in Vienna, Lower Austria, the Czech Republic and Jakarta (Indonesia). The film distributor is the film shop distributor .
Film funding was provided by the Austrian Film Institute , the Vienna Film Fund and the Swiss Federal Office for Culture . The film received further funding from ORF as part of the film / television agreement and from SF DRS .
Trivia
Throughout the entire film, music by the Serbian singer Dragana Mirković can be heard in the pub scenes , although the film does not have any migrant themes and does not contain any other characters from the former Yugoslavia. The director Michael Glawogger had met Mirković during one of her performances in Frankfurt am Main and had taken a liking to her music. He offered her the collaboration and even added a scene afterwards in which she appears in the tavern.
Awards
- Diagonale 2006: Thomas Pluch Screenplay Award
- Berlinale 2006 : Nomination for the Golden Bear in the main competition
- Flanders International Film Festival 2006: Best Screenplay
Web links
- Slumming in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Slumming at filmportal.de
- Slumming at swissfilms.ch
- Interview with Michael Glawogger about “Slumming” on filmnews.at
Individual evidence
- ↑ Age rating for slumming . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ filminstitut.at
- ↑ Slumming. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Daniel Haas: Cinema. Spiegel Online , February 11, 2006
- ^ Susan Vahabzadeh: Berlinale Films Mercilessly Growing Up . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 13, 2006
- ^ Andreas Kilb: Berlinale Competition. In: FAZ , February 13, 2006
- ↑ Dominik Kamalzadeh: Resurrection of the drunkard . In: Der Standard , November 25, 2006
- ↑ ilustrovana.com ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
