MEGACITIES

AUSTRIA | 1998 | 90' | DOCUMENTARY

A film by

MICHAEL GLAWOGGER

Producer

ERICH LACKNER - ROLF SCHMID

Synopsis

Earth is beautiful. It’s people who make it horrific. Bombay, Mexico City, Moscow, New York: seductive yet repellent monsters. The contradiction insinuates itself into the daily lives of those who populate these MEGACITIES.

The film’s twelve chapters tell the tales of: Shankar, the Bioscope Man; Modesto, the chicken feet vendor; Baba Khan, the paint recycler; Nestor, the trash scavenger; Oleg, Borya, Kolya and Misha, the street kids; Cassandra, the performer; Larissa, the crane driver; Toni, the hustler. Day in, day out they all set about their struggle for survival with ingenuity, intelligence and dignity. And they all share a single fantasy: the dream of a better life.

MEGACITIES is a film about work, poverty, violence, love and sex. A film about the beauty of people.