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CHRISTIANE F.
Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo
Synopsis
14-year-old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in Berlin. Although she’s legally too young to enter the new disco the ‘Sound’, she asks a friend to take her. There she meets Detlef, who’s in a clique where everybody’s on drugs. Step by step she gets drawn deeper into the scene.
Synopsis
14-year-old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in Berlin. Although she’s legally too young to enter the new disco the ‘Sound’, she asks a friend to take her. There she meets Detlef, who’s in a clique where everybody’s on drugs. Step by step she gets drawn deeper into the scene.
Our take
Before the scuzzy sex and narcotics of Kids, cinema’s wasted youth were here, in a grungy nocturne of 1970s West Berlin. Scandalous to audiences on its release and now a cult classic, this nightcrawler of a film falls into darkness fast—but not before slinking about to David Bowie’s rebel sounds.