Overview
A 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.
Fun facts
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Box office
Made on a $4M budget
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Based on
Based on We Children from Zoo Station
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Filming locations
Filmed in New York City, Berlin and Kurfürstendamm metro station
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Setting
Set in Gropiusstadt, Berlin Zoologischer Garten railway station, Berlin and SOUND
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Music
Music by Jürgen Knieper
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Justus Pankau and Jürgen Jürges
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Herman WeigelScreenplay
- Christiane FelscherinowBook
- Horst RieckBook
- Kai HermannBook
- Original title
- Christiane F. - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- April 2, 1981
- Original language
- German
- Budget
- $4M
- Countries
- Germany
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Cast
Natja BrunckhorstChristiane
Thomas HausteinDetlev
Jens KuphalAxel
Rainer WoelkLeiche- Jan Georg EfflerBernd
Christiane ReicheltBabsi- Daniela JaegerKessi
- Kerstin RichterStella
- Eberhard AurigaOld Junkie
- Lothar ChamskiRolf
- Ellen EsserKessi's Mother
- Uwe DiderichKlaus
- Andreas FuhrmannAtze
- Lutz HemmerlingBienenstich
- Bernhard JansonMilan
- Christiane LechleChristiane's Mother
- Kerstin MalessaTina
- Cathrine SchabeckLinda
- Peggy BussieckPuppi
- Stanislaus SolotarStottermaxe
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