Whores' Glory

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Movie
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
Rod
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

v. l. to right: Peter Wirthensohn, Wolfgang Thaler, Michael Glawogger and Tommy Pridnig (Austrian Film Prize 2012)

literature

Web links

Interviews with Michael Glawogger