Name
Michael Glawogger
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1959-12-03
Deathday
2014-04-23 (55 years old)
Place of Birth
Graz, Austria
Biography
Michael Glawogger (3 December 1959 – 23 April 2014) was an Austrian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer.
From 1981 to 1982, Glawogger studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, and from 1983 to 1989 at the Vienna Film Academy. Like fellow Austrian director Ulrich Seidl, with whom he collaborated several times, he was mainly known for his documentary films, such as Megacities (1998), Workingman's Death (2005) and Whores' Glory (2011). In 2008 he was a member of the jury at the 30th Moscow International Film Festival.
In 2013, Glawogger contributed one chapter to "Cathedrals of Culture", a 3-D film on architecture produced by Wim Wenders.
Four days after incorrectly being diagnosed with typhus, he died from malaria on 22 April 2014 shortly before midnight in Monrovia, Liberia during a movie production. In February 2015, a book of stories entitled 69 Hotelzimmer was released. The stories used hotel rooms Glawogger had visited (or in some cases only heard about in passing) as a departure for stories that reflect the visual richness for which his films are celebrated.
Known For
6.6
Based on the true story of Benjamin Prufer and Sreykeo Solvan. The unexpected and uncertai...
6.6
In conurbations where hundreds of thousands live alongside one another, in the era of a hi...
6.4
Mao inherits her uncle Waberl’s – a former icon of Sex, Drugs and Rock’n’Roll – ...
6.8
In Bangkok, Thailand, women punch a clock and wait for clients in a brightly lit glass box...
5.6
The story and fate of three families: A Jewish family destroyed by the massacres of the Na...
6.6
Gangster boss Carlos orders the dodgy Viennese junkyard owner Harry to bring him a bag fro...
5.2
Ozren is raised in Vienna by his mother Silvija, who works as a prostitute, and his aunt a...
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Is heavy manual labour disappearing or is it just becoming invisible? Where can we still f...
- 2010 Same Same But Different as Guest Gala Dinner
- 2015 Carl Andersens Underground der Liebe as himself
- 1951 German Film Award ( 1 episode ) as Self
