Letzte Ausfahrt Brooklyn

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.