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Slumming (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
96 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access
Teaser(s)

Movie filmed in 2006 and produced in:
Austria ( Germany, Central Europe )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Switzerland ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Michael Glawogger

Written By:
Barbara Albert
Michael Glawogger

Actors:
Paulus Manker ..... Kallmann
August Diehl ..... Sebastian
Michael Ostrowski ..... Alex
Pia Hierzegger ..... Pia
Maria Bill ..... Herta
Martina Zinner ..... Marianne
Brigitte Kren ..... Sonja
Loretta Pflaum ..... Hippiemädchen
Martina Poel ..... Krista
Andreas Kiendl ..... Andreas
Petra Bernhardt ..... Rothaariges Mädchen
Kathrin Resetarits ..... Elegante Frau
Caro Kuchwalek ..... Vera
Nina Petz ..... Johanna
Nina Sieberer ..... Frau mit Zopf im Lokal

Synopsis:

A privileged young prankster with a cruel streak sends an alcoholic poet on a redemptive quest to find his way back home in director Michael Glawogger's semi-existential road drama. Sebastian (August Diehl) is a well-to-do slacker who has crafted his skill for slumming into something of an art form. Along with his flatmate Alex (Michael Ostrowski), Sebastian frequently arranges meetings with various women in dive bars throughout Vienna, only to photograph them surreptitiously under the table and use the resulting pictures as an endless source of amusement. As his already mean tricks begin to turn outright malicious, Sebastian finds the once-willing Alex growing increasingly uncomfortable with their 'harmless' pastime. Kallman (Paulus Manker) is a troubled alcoholic who sells his poems on the street in order to stay inebriated. When Sebastian and Alex discover an unconscious Kallman sleeping off his latest round of drinks on a train station bench, they quickly spirit the clueless drunk into their car and across the Czech border where he is casually dumped without identification in a remote village. Subsequently enamored by restless local teacher Pia (Pia Hierzegger), Sebastian inadvertently revolts the kindly educator by jovially revealing the details of his latest practical joke. As a determined Pia sets out to locate the ailing alcoholic and safely bring him back home, Kallman attempts to recount just how he ended up so far away from Vienna as he navigates a strange and unfamiliar landscape.

One day Kallmann wakes up and the world seems like another planet. He doesnt understand a word anyone says, doesn't know anyone and even his local railway station has shrunk. What he doesn't realise is that it's part of a practical joke played on him by Sebastian and Alex. They found the drunken street poet in front of the main station in Vienna, packed him in the boot of their car and dropped him off at a small Czech town station. But soon they too will start to have difficulties understanding the world around them.

Two yuppies play mean tricks on one another until one joke has fatal consequences. |

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 28 December, 2009.

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