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Christiane F.
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1981 film by Uli Edel
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Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo is a 1981 German drama film directed by Uli Edel. The screenplay was written by Herman Weigel and Kai Hermann, based on the book We Children from Zoo Station. The film stars Natja Brunckhorst and David Bowie, with music composed by Jürgen Knieper. It was produced by Bernd Eichinger through companies including CLV-Filmproduktions and Solaris Film.
The narrative is set in 1977 Berlin, featuring locations such as Berlin Zoologischer Garten railway station and Kurfürstendamm metro station. The plot addresses themes of prostitution, heroin use, and non-controlled substance abuse. The film has a runtime of 131 or 138 minutes and was distributed by 20th Century Studios and Netflix. It holds review scores of 7.1/10, 78%, and 7.5/10.
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Film · TMDB
7.3A teen girl in 1970s Berlin becomes addicted to heroin. Everything in her life slowly begins to distort and disappear as she befriends a small crew of junkies and falls in love with a drug-abusing male prostitute.
Cast
- Natja Brunckhorst as Christiane
- Thomas Haustein as Detlev
- Jens Kuphal as Axel
- Rainer Woelk as Leiche (as Rainer Wölk)
- David Bowie as David Bowie
- Eberhard Auriga as Alter Fixer
Themes
- berlin, germany
- heroin
- junkie
- prostitution
- illegal drugs
- dramatic
- critical
- intense
- complicated
- informative
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Ratings
IMDb
7.5/10
32,933 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
80%
- Year
- 1981
- Runtime
- 138 min
- Genres
- Biography, Drama
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 2 wins & 2 nominations total
via OMDb · IMDb
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- Germany
- Original language
- German
- Based on
- We Children from Zoo Station
- Main subject
- drug culture
- Director
- Uli Edel
- Composer
- Jürgen Knieper
- Producer
- Bernd Eichinger
- Narrative location
- Gropiusstadt
- Filming location
- New York City
- Duration
- 138
- FilmAffinity ID
- 900076
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1982-02-12
- film editor
- Jane Seitz
- title
- Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo
- distributed by
- Netflix
- set in period
- 1977
- samples from work
- Night of the Living Dead
- review score
- 78%
- soundtrack release
- Christiane F.
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