San Francisco – California’s Dream of Freedom

Here, you can travel around the world without ever leaving town – so many different people with different cultural backgrounds live in San Francisco, and nowhere else is the ideal of personal and social freedom such a strong guiding principle. Throughout its history, San Francisco has been a magnet and a last frontier for rugged individualists, lifestyle innovators, and those who simply don’t quite fit in anywhere else.

Our travelogue introduces several particularly San Franciscan eccentrics. Together with drag queens, hippies, cable car operators and a former Alcatraz inmate we get to know the complexity of a town the locals simply call The City as we join them on a culinary journey through Chinatown and into the vibrant world of the Latinos.

45’
ZDF, ARTE