Gateways to New York (2019)
Douban
director:
Martin Witz
playwright:
Martin Witz
actor:
Edward Cohen
/
Margot Ammann Durrer
/
Tom F. Peters
genre:
Documentary
region:
Switzerland
language:
English
/
German
length: 1h 28m
release date: 2019
IMDb: tt9789404
overview
Martin Witz’s film pays tribute to one of the most influential figures of 20th-century America. Othmar Ammann was a reserved, recessive man, and it’s perhaps for that reason he’s not better known; he was a civil engineer who designed most of Manhattan’s bridges, helped establish innovations and safeguards in bridge building, and worked with the controversial urban developer Robert Moses to make New York City what it is today. -- From viff.org