Saturday 10 August 2019

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



A bored, aimless 14-year-old girl falls into the drug scene in Berlin in the 1970s after attending 'The Sound', a modern new disco.

Good and very realistic chronicle of a descent into drug addiction is bleak and intense, has an excellent cast of young actors, but it is at its best depicting West Berlin of that time, especially the life and atmosphere around the Bahnhof Zoo.

Halliwell*: "Slick melodrama hoked up from 'true' confessions with excellent background detail."

Maltin**1/2: "Grim, gruesome account...Well meaning but uneven..."


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