Whores' Glory
Movie | |
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German title | Whores' Glory |
Original title | Whores' Glory |
Country of production | Austria , Germany |
original language | Thai , Bengali , Spanish |
Publishing year | 2011 |
length | 111 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 16 |
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Director | Michael Glawogger |
script | Michael Glawogger |
production |
Erich Lackner , Tommy Pridnig , Peter Wirthensohn |
music | Richard Pappik and Sven Regener ( Element of Crime ) |
camera | Wolfgang Thaler |
cut | Monika Willi |
Whores' Glory is a documentary by Michael Glawogger from the year 2011 . Without comment, it shows the daily work of prostitutes in three different cultures: Buddhist Thailand , Muslim Bangladesh and Catholic Mexico .
action
The film is divided into three episodes analogous to the three locations in the cities of Bangkok (Thailand), Faridpur (Bangladesh) and Reynosa (Mexico):
In the first part, the everyday life of prostitutes in Bangkok is shown in a so-called fish tank (English aquarium). The women sit in a brightly lit, glassed-in room and wait to be selected by the customers in the anteroom and called with their number.
The second location is a huge brothel called Ananda Nagar ("City of Joy") in the small town of Faridpur in Bangladesh. 600 to 800 women live and work there in a confined space. Most of them were bought by their puff mother when they were young girls in order to commit themselves for a certain period of time to work off their expensive purchase price in exchange for the promise of a relatively safe place to stay and a later "care".
The third part is in the town of Reynosa near the Texas border. There - as in other Mexican cities - the legal places of prostitution are called zonas de tolerancia (tolerance zones). The entrance to the zona is secured with barriers and is monitored by the police.
Awards
- Austrian Film Award 2012 : Best Documentary and Best Cinematography
- Venice International Film Festival 2011 : Special Jury Prize in the "Orizzonti" series
literature
- WHORES 'GLORY A Triptych on Prostitution , illustrated book, ISBN 978-3-936086-56-0
Web links
- Internet presence of the film ( Memento from August 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- Whores' Glory in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- German trailer
- International trailer
Interviews with Michael Glawogger
- Interview with Michael Glawogger ( Memento from December 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Kleine Zeitung from August 31, 2011, accessed on December 16, 2011
- Alexander Musik: Close until you smell sweat and sperm , DIE ZEIT from September 28, 2011