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The stories of the prostitutes, told via a filmic journey from Mexico to Thailand to Bangladesh to Nepal and Vienna, revolve around the lives of the individual women, their loves, longings, hopes, needs, and the brutalities they experience. The premise of the film is that these women can tell us more about the relationships between men and women than anyone else because they have experienced everything that can take place between a man and a woman through their bodies, their, minds, and their souls.
They have awakened desires, spurned passions, fulfilled fantasies, and allayed fears. For this they have always received money, but it has not made their lives rich in anything but stories and history.
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Hans Wurst and Max Durst dream of getting rich as hot dog stand tycoons while the small-time crook Georgie just wants to sit around watching car racing all day. Mao would be able to do just that if she didn’t have to babysit her girlfriend’s daughter all the time. And Harry would absolutely die for a roll in the hay with his blond mechanics. But when Woytila’s bag enters the scene, all their dreams and wishful thinking suddenly turn to dust. “Next stop: Drogomysel!”
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Ratz wishes he could kill his father. At least virtually. He develops a computer game that lets him do so as often as he pleases, but that is just about the only occupation this young Austrian has as he wages his silent battle against the world, trying to come to terms with being a minister’s son, love his sister, and understand the world around him. Then one day, an ex-girlfriend, his first love, asks him for a favor. She wants him to come to New York to help her adapt an apartment. This trip takes him on a journey deep into his ancestors’ past and into their minds.
Based on the novel “Das Vaterspiel” by Josef Haslinger
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Alex is intelligent, politically active, and prepared to fight for his convictions. Sitting in a bus full of similar-minded activists, he has no idea where this journey to the anti-globalization rally in Genoa will take him in the end. He is fighting frontline amidst the other protestors. He throws a Molotov cocktail, a policeman catches fire. Alex thinks he has killed him and flees, catching the first plane out of town. So begins a journey from which he will never return.
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An American journalist and an American photographer get an American newspaper to send them to Cambodia to study the impact of the Pol Pot regime and possibly get an interview with the former dictator whose Khmer Rouge killed over one million people. Instead of carrying out their assignment, they whore their way through Asia. The journalist falls in love with a Cambodian prostitute named Vanna. He experiences his relationship with her as a self-mutilating and inescapable passion.
Based on the novel “Butterfly Stories” by William T. Vollmann
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