Release Date

01 Jul, 1985

Runtime

01:29: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

The City That Never Sleeps

A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the participation of some of New York's leading political and cultural figures. Made at a time when the city was experiencing unprecedented real estate development on the one hand and unforeseen displacement of population and deterioration on the other. Empire City is the story of two New Yorks. The film explores the precarious coexistence of the service-based midtown Manhattan corporate headquarters with the peripheral New York of undereducated minorities living in increasing alienation.

Original Title

Empire City

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Actors

Donald Trump

Ed Koch

Jane Jacobs

Elia Kazan

Norman Mailer

Arthur Miller

Jason Robards

Crew

Mead Hunt

Michael Blackwood

Peter Brugger

Philip Glass

David Schmerler

Thomas Holaday

Ned Bastille

Pamela Katz

Tom Fleischman

Frances Fitzgerald

Michael Blackwood