Synopsis

The topics in Whore’s Glory are certainly loaded to director Michael Glawogger because everyone believes they know something about prostitution, particularly when he or she has never been to a brothel, or they know about it from the media or simply from second hand information. The director tried to go in with only one expectation: “This is certainly not going to be what I think it is.” Glawogger’s final installment of his ‘globalization(world of work) trilogy’ along with Megacities and Workingman’s Death takes us on a global tour of the world’s oldest profession, a vocation which provides the opportunity for dual insight into both the traditional nature of labor and the insidious effects of self-commodification. In Thailand, women wait for clients behind glass panes, staring at reflections of themselves. In Bangladesh, men go to a ghetto of love to satisfy their unfulfilled desires on indentured girls. And in Mexico, women pray to a female death to avoid facing their own reality. In worlds where the most intimate act has become a commodity, these women have physically and emotionally experienced everything that can happen between a man and a woman. For this they have always received money, but it has not made their lives rich in anything but stories.

Director

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  Michael GLAWOGGER
  

  Michael Glawogger is a director, writer and Cinematographer and his work in each of these roles displays a broad spectrum. He not only moves back and forth between cinematic forms and genres, but also between filmmaking, photography and writing – and between gentler and more forceful tones. With Whores’ Glory he completes his trilogy on the world of work.
  
  Whores’ Glory (2011)
  Workingman’s Death (2005)
  State of the Nation (2002)
  France, Here We Come! (1999)
  Megacities (1998)
  Movies in the Mind (1996)

Credits

• Director  Michael GLAWOGGER
• Producer  Erich LACKNER, Tommy PRIDNIG, Peter WIRTENSOHN
• Writer  Michael GLAWOGGER
• Editor  Monika WILLI
• Sound  Paul OBERLE, Ekkehart BAUMUNG

PRODUCTION COMPANY

• PRODUCTION COMPANY  Lotus Film, Quinte Film

Distributor/Sales

• Distributor/Sales  The Match Factory
• Address  Balthasarstr. 79-81 50670 Cologne, Germany
• Tel  49 221 539 709 0
• E-mail  info@matchfactory.de