Prostitution simply exists in this world. From there, we are left to ourselves in the Austrian master documentarist Michael Glawogger's epic and confrontational "Whore's Glory", which observingly and with a ruthless proximity takes place across three continents and three religious cultures. In Bangkok, prostitutes clock in like factory workers, before they take their seats for clients in an illuminated aquarium-like shop window. "The House of Desire" in Bangladesh is a dark and infernal labyrinth, where mothers haggle over the price of their 12-year-old daughters. And in the gated community "La Zona" in Mexico, people pray to "The Holy Death" - a female goddess and the only hope in a place that mostly looks like hell on earth. It took Glawogger four years to gain the women's (and the customers") trust to be able to reach right into the pitch-black heart of prostitution culture, where the dubious double standards of religion dominate. But at the same time, it is also a monumental work of a scale, where humanity itself is the protagonist. "Whore's Glory" is the long-awaited third film of Glawogger's globalisation trilogy, which also includes "Megacities" (1998) and the DOX:AWARD winner "Workingman's Death" (2005).

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