Brooklyn last exit

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Movie
German title Brooklyn last exit
Original title Last Exit to Brooklyn
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1989
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
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Director Uli Edel
script Desmond Nakano
production Bernd Eichinger
music Mark Knopfler
camera Stefan Czapsky
cut Peter Przygodda
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Last Exit to Brooklyn ( Last Exit to Brooklyn ) is a film drama from the year 1989 , which by German filmmakers Bernd Eichinger and Uli Edel spot in Brooklyn of New York City in the United States and the Bavaria Film Studios in Munich was filmed.

The drama is a film adaptation of Hubert Selby's 1964 novel Last Exit Brooklyn .

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The film is set in the 1950s years in New York and consists of several episodes:

Brooklyn . Harry Black is a local union employee and likes to brag about the space and expense allowances the union gives him. He makes new friends in a street fight. Although he is married and has an infant, he attends a transvestite party with them. There he, who had always rejected his wife, finally discovered his homosexuality and began an affair with an androgynous dandy named Regina.

Big Joe's overweight daughter is pregnant. The child's father is called Tommy and appears as a likable son-in-law, but is initially rejected by Big Joe, who even starts a fight with Tommy twice. However, under the influence of his dominant wife, he finally makes his peace with him.

Georgette is a young, gay transvestite and the host of the party Harry Black attended. For the early 1950s, he lived out his inclinations relatively openly. This leads to his older brother throwing him out of the home. He is in love with a young man who does not reciprocate this love, but respects him somewhat. It's one of the thugs who went to the party with Harry Black. After the party, Georgette rushes after him in a drug intoxication, is hit by a car and killed.

Tralala is a heavily bleached young woman who hits the streets in Manhattan . Sometimes she lures her customers into a trap, where they are robbed by her stupid accomplices . One of their customers is a melancholy lieutenant before his front-line deployment in Korea . He falls in love with her and spends a few days with her at his own expense. Reluctantly, she has to admit that she returns his love. After his departure, in her drunken desperation and loneliness, she beguiles the men in her local pub, while Tralala bares her breasts, whereupon they carry them outside and arrange a gangbang . Sal, a boy from the neighborhood (a son of Big Joe), who has secretly fallen in love with the much older Tralala, finds her and drives away the last of the men. Then he bursts into tears as she calms him down.

Harry Black is kicked out of his manager's office in the union leadership after discovering irregularities in his expense reports and other misconduct. At the same time, his new great love Regina turns away from him. Desperate as if out of his mind, he tries to sexually assault a boy from the neighborhood in a dark backyard . For this he is badly beaten up by several men.

The story is embedded in a large factory strike that, despite the violence, comes to a happy ending.

Reviews

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on May 11, 1990: The film is more of a tragedy than a love story because it shows loving people in "unhappy times". Most people would hate movies like this because there is no happy ending. The depressing filming locations are unforgettable.

Nana AT Rebhan wrote on www.arte.tv that the director proves “that he can perfectly stage gloomy moods”. "The camera work by Stefan Czapsky, which creates a strong atmosphere, and the cool music by Mark Knopfler" would also contribute to "that this film leaves the intense impression of an American nightmare".

Lexicon of international film : “… In a series of several tragedies, the cinematic passion story sketches a dull, gloomy cosmos in which extreme violence and aggression are the only forms of expression of human emotions. Elaborate and sometimes suggestive, the bottom line is nothing more than a predominantly demonstrative show of strength that barely penetrates into the depths. "

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  1. ^ Film review by Roger Ebert
  2. ^ Film review by Nana AT Rebhan, accessed on November 8, 2007 ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

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