Slumming - Austria - Switzerland - Germany

slumming

Airing Times

Slumming (2006)
Austria / Switzerland / Germany

Director: Michael Glawogger
Cast: Paulus Manker, August Diehl

Rich slacker Sebastian has little respect for others, especially 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 play 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?

 


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 wilderness.

 
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.