Peter Krobath: Its interesting that The Whores Son is set in the red-light milieu without being a milieu film as such ...
Michael Sturminger: Its set somewhere on the periphery of that milieu, it creeps up on the red-light milieu from behind as it were. For example, the brothel is only shown when its being cleaned and never when its in operation. You see the mother getting dressed up and made up for her job, especially at the beginning, when shes still working under adverse conditions, how she goes off to work and comes back home. Its not prostitution itself thats the subject of this film but life with prostitution.
Does The Whores Son have to be set in Austria, or could this story take place anywhere?
Michael Sturminger: Austrias only important to the extent that its a foreign country for the protagonists who are living there. But in principle the story could also be set among the Portuguese community in Belgium or the Puertoricans in New York. Its about people who migrate from a weak economic region to a stronger one and have to struggle along as best they can, each in his or her own way.
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