Culture & Life

“I'm not here to show people what they want to see”

Director Michael Glawogger presented his latest documentary Whores' Glory, exploring prostitution in three countries across the globe, at the Discovery Zone film festival. Wort.lu/en sat down with the filmmaker to talk about the film and his craft.

08.03.2012

Making the documentaries Megacities and Workingman's Death, Glawogger says, started a series of questions. Especially a sequence featuring a stripper, which became a “key moment in interesting and controversial ways” got audiences talking about issues of “religion, mother figures, families, whores, victims, pride, many many things.”