Three German women, Claudia, Anna, and Ulli, go to New York - which casts a spell over them as if hypnotized - in the early 1980s and try to gain their footing. Claudia, who has come to New York with her boyfriend, soon breaks up with him and falls in love with a woman. Ulli from Swabia lives with her boyfriend Ronnie, who in a drug intoxication has killed his best friend in self-defense. Anna, after marrying a fashion designer, met a judge, in a strip club, where she occasionally performed alongside her job as a therapist in a Catholic school. "SURVIVAL IN NEW YORK is particularly compelling for its sensitive and precise storytelling and superb cinematography." (Polyfilm)
Documentary, Independent
1h 30min
16 FSK
DE
Three German women go to New York City in the early 1980's and try to get established there.
Three German women, Claudia, Anna, and Ulli, go to New York - which casts a spell over them as if hypnotized - in the early 1980s and try to gain their footing.
Claudia, who has come to New York with her boyfriend, soon breaks up with him and falls in love with a woman. Ulli from Swabia lives with her boyfriend Ronnie, who in a drug intoxication has killed his best friend in self-defense.
Anna, after marrying a fashion designer, met a judge, in a strip club, where she occasionally performed alongside her job as a therapist in a Catholic school.
"SURVIVAL IN NEW YORK is particularly compelling for its sensitive and precise storytelling and superb cinematography." (Polyfilm)