A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a union strike leader discovers he is gay; a prostitute falls in love with one of her clients; a family cannot cope with the fact that their daughter is illegitimately pregnant.
Uli Edel | Director |
Hubert Selby Jr. | Novel |
Bernd Eichinger | Producer |
Mark Knopfler | Original Music Composer |
Stefan Czapsky | Director of Photography |
Peter Przygodda | Editor |
Herman Weigel | Co-Producer |
Dieter Meyer | Line Producer |
G. Mac Brown | Line Producer |
Anna Gross | Associate Producer |