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AKA: Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo; We Children from Bahnhof Zoo
Directed by: Uli Edel
Starring: Natja Brunckhorst (Christiane), Thomas Haustein (Detlev), Christiane Reichelt (Babsi), Jens Kupha (Axel)
Country: Germany, European Cinema
Language: German (English Subtitles)
Runtime: 02:10:56
Genres: Based on a True Story, BDSM, Drugs, Gay, Prostitution, Old-Young, Teensploitation
Plot – Spoilers:
Based on a true story, 13 year-old Christiane lives with her mother and younger sister in a Berlin apartment that depresses her. Though her parents are separated, she shares a fairly decent relationship with her mother and in an act of loyalty, opts to stay with her, rather than with Dad, when her sister moves in with him. But this leaves her lonely, until one night, when a friend takes her to a newly-opened trending club. Here she meets Detlev who is kind to her when she’s handling a trip like an embarrassing noob. Christiane is also shocked out of her sensibilities by the sight of a passed-out junkie walking around normally some time later – a sight that reshapes her sheltered views on junkies being here-today-dead-tomorrow.
Soon, Christiane and Detlev begin hanging out, but briefly break up when Detlev starts doing heroin. By now though, Christiane is in love with him and in an attempt to connect with him on the same plane, tries heroin. It also helps that the junkie community around her, Detlev included, are a fairly passive lot and from there, Christiane’s spiral takes her to Zoo Station, a railway station where teen junkies prostitute themselves to anyone who’ll have them.
Favorite Scenes:
Christiane, Detlev and friends whiling the night away to Bowie’s Heroes. As dawn breaks, Christiane looks on innocently at the adult world, as it prepares for a new day of work and routines, and it seems so cut off from the happy place she’s in right now.
