Christiane F.

Thirteen-year-old Christiane moves to a housing estate in West Berlin and falls in with the heroin scene around Bahnhof Zoo. What begins as teenage rebellion — nightclubs, David Bowie concerts, first love — slides with sickening inevitability into addiction, prostitution, and a daily fight for survival. Based on the real Christiane Felscherinow's testimony, Uli Edel's film is one of the most unflinching portraits of drug dependency ever made, and a time capsule of a divided Berlin at its most desolate.

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