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Letzte Ausfahrt Brooklyn

BR Deutschland USA 1989 Spielfilm

Last Exit to Brooklyn

By adapting Hubert Selby's novel, which paints a nightmarish scenario of escalating violence in Brooklyn and was considered almost impossible to film because of its chaotic linguistic structure, student friends Uli Edel and Bernd Eichinger fulfilled a long-held wish.

In the early 1950s, the factory workers in the waterfront are on strike, and the residents are struggling for daily survival, including union man Harry Black, transvestite Georgette and street urchin Sal. A central character created especially for the film is the prostitute Tralala, who serves her pimp Vinnie as a decoy for robberies. One night, she provokes the men in a waterfront bar and becomes the victim of a gang rape. She wakes from unconsciousness in the arms of Sal, who shyly adores her. But the hope of escaping the inferno by being close to other people remains slim.

Credits

Director

  • Uli Edel

Screenplay

  • Desmond Nakano

Director of photography

  • Stephan Czapsky

Editing

  • Peter Przygodda

Music

  • Mark Knopfler

Cast

  • Stephen Lang
    Harry Black
  • Jennifer Jason Leigh
    Tralala
  • Burt Young
    Big Joe
  • Peter Dobson
    Vinnie
  • Jerry Orbach
    Boyce
  • Stephen Baldwin
    Sal
  • Jason Andrews
    Tony
  • James Lorinz
    Freddy
  • Sam Rockwell
    Al
  • Maia Danziger
    Mary Black

Production company

  • Neue Constantin Film Produktion GmbH (München)
  • Allied Filmmakers (UK)

Producer

  • Bernd Eichinger (NC)

Alle Credits

Director

  • Uli Edel

Screenplay

  • Desmond Nakano

based on

  • Hubert Selby Jr. (Erzählung)

Director of photography

  • Stephan Czapsky

Set design

  • David Chapman (Szenenbild)

Make-up artist

  • Kathryn Bihr

Costume design

  • Carol Oditz

Editing

  • Peter Przygodda

Sound editor

  • Peter R. Adam

Sound

  • Danny Michael

Music

  • Mark Knopfler

Cast

  • Stephen Lang
    Harry Black
  • Jennifer Jason Leigh
    Tralala
  • Burt Young
    Big Joe
  • Peter Dobson
    Vinnie
  • Jerry Orbach
    Boyce
  • Stephen Baldwin
    Sal
  • Jason Andrews
    Tony
  • James Lorinz
    Freddy
  • Sam Rockwell
    Al
  • Maia Danziger
    Mary Black

Production company

  • Neue Constantin Film Produktion GmbH (München)
  • Allied Filmmakers (UK)

in association with

  • Bavaria Filmproduktion GmbH (München-Geiselgasteig)

Producer

  • Bernd Eichinger (NC)

Co-Producer

  • Herman Weigel

Unit production manager

  • Rolf M. Degener
Duration:
2812 m, 103 min
Format:
35mm (?)
Video/Audio:
Eastmancolor, Dolby Stereo
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 15.09.1989, 62665, ab 16 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

TV-Erstsendung (DE): 16.10.1994, Pro 7

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DE) Letzte Ausfahrt Brooklyn
  • Originaltitel (US) Last Exit to Brooklyn

Versions

Original

Duration:
2812 m, 103 min
Format:
35mm (?)
Video/Audio:
Eastmancolor, Dolby Stereo
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 15.09.1989, 62665, ab 16 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

TV-Erstsendung (DE): 16.10.1994, Pro 7

Awards

New York Film Critics Circle Award 1990
  • Beste Nebendarstellerin
Bayerischer Filmpreis 1990
  • Bester Schnitt
  • Beste Regie
Deutscher Filmpreis 1990
  • Filmband in Gold, Bester Film
  • Filmband in Gold, Beste Regie
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