Directed by: Michael Glawogger
Script: Michael Glawogger, Barbara Albert
Producer: Erich Lackner
Production company: Lotus-Film
Cinematography: Martin Gschlacht
Editing: Christof Schertenleib
Cast: Paulus Manker, August Diehl, Michael Ostrowski, Pia Hierzegger, Maria Bill

Format: 35 mm
Running time: 100'

Synopsis
Rich slacker Sebastian has little respect for others, especially not women. Riding on his good looks and charm, he easily manipulates people, like his flatmate Alex. He enjoys playing with others; sometimes casually, sometimes cruelly, changing their lives. Sebastian's favorite sport is slumming in Vienna's seedy bars and cafés in search of quirky characters to toy with. He also likes surfing for young women over the internet, seducing them with elaborate stories of truth, half-truth and lies. Grade school teacher Pia is his latest conquest. Or maybe this wallflower who talks too much when she's nervous has actually conquered him? Their romance is jeopardized when Pia becomes angry about Sebastian's latest act of flippant cruelty: just for fun, he and Alex picked up an unconscious drunk off the street and drove him to the Czech Republic, where they dumped him without any ID. Pia decides to rescue this man, Kallman, a down and out poet whose drinking binges usually result in ranting and raving and aggressive attempts to sell his poems on the street. Little does he know, he's about to have a moment of sudden revelation, lost and alone in the wintry Czech wildnerness ...

Awards and Festivals
European Film Festival Palic 2006 - Golden Tower Award for Best Film
Diagonale 2006 – Best Screenplay
International Film Festival Arsenals 2006 - Magic Crystal Award

Directors Biography
Michael Glawogger is a director, writer and cinematographer and his work in each of these roles displays a broad spectrum. Glawogger was born in Graz, Austria, in 1959. He is a traveling filmmaker. Not only does he literally journey around the world for his documentaries, he also moves back and forth between forms and genres, between photography and writing, between gentler and more forceful tones. He graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute and the Vienna Film Academy and has since worked as a director, writer, and cinematographer in Vienna, Bangkok, and Znojmo. His recent works range from the literary adaptation Kill Daddy Good Night (2009) and the quirky comedies Slugs (2004) and Contact High (2009) to his essayist documentaries Whore's Glory (2011), Megacities (2009) and Workingman's Death (2004).

Location and screening schedule: GRIÈ CINEMA, Friday, October 19th at 22.00