Frau Mercedes (2008)

• 78%
• 2008
• Dokumentarfilm
• Sylvia Leiser
• Martha Wigger
• Ernst Jost

In Bern, Sylvia Leiser has been working for 35 years in her car as a prostitute. She is known as "Mrs Mercedes", her car and working place being a Mercedes. She has been directly confronted to the mutation which took place in the underworld: Brothels have been rendered legal with the paradoxical consequence that the business doesn't submit to any more laws. Prostitution is now socially acknowledged but at the same time has lost it's glamor, and the profits are no longer what they used to be. The number of customers is always the same, yet in Bern the number of women working in the underworld has increased tenfold. To-day, "Mrs Mercedes" earns in one month what she used to earn in one day. The documentary Lady Mercedes is a portrait of the prostitute Sylvia Leiser. The film accompanies her to the part of the town where she works in Bern. There, she offers her services every evening of every week under the name of Mrs Mercedes. The film shows her also in her flat in Biel, where she is ...