Christiane F. (Christiane F. - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo) (1981)

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" Christiane F. (German: Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo, de is a 1981 German biographical drama film directed by Uli Edel that portrays the descent of Christiane Felscherinow, a bored and depressed 13-year-old growing up in mid-1970s West Berlin, to a 14-year-old heroin addict. Based on the 1978 non-fiction book Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (We Children from Zoo Station), transcribed and edited from tape recordings by Kai Hermann and Horst Rieck, the film immediately acquired cult "

“(MU) Seen 40 years ago, I missed the esential: inventory, gallery, fantasmagoria from slow pace to paroxism, of a zombi generation, lulled by Bowie himself. Some aged scandal on sex, but make up, real locations, extras are more than ok...” read more

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"Christiane F. "Piss and shit everywhere. If you look close enough at first sight it looks fine, with its lawns... and shopping centers. But the staircases of the flats stink! What are the children to do, when they are playing outside? They shit themselves waiting for the lift, so instead they do it in the lobby.""

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" Based on the autobiography of Christiane Felscherinow, Christiane F. is an entirely unglamorous look at the degradation of drug addiction against a solid backdrop of David Bowie songs. This is not Sunday afternoon viewing; the film is darker than dark, depressing, and graphic, but it is a remarkably evenhanded (if not at all shy) depiction of what it was like being a teenaged junkie in seventies Berlin. "