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Director: Uli Edel (as Ulrich Edel)
Writers: Herman Weigel, Christiane Felscherinow (novel)
Cast: Natja Brunckhorst, Eberhard Auriga, Peggy Bussieck
Genre: Biography Drama
Language: German
Christiane F. for such a heady, dark subject I felt almost nothing while watching this film. Though I do think it's a well made film. Some films don't touch me emotionally. It just depends if I can suspend disbelief. With Christiane F I couldn't buy into what I was seeing. It all seemed to much like an educational 1980s anti-drug movie. I think I've seen too many movies as I end up watching them to see how they're constructed.
My primary interest with Christiane F. was getting a first hand look at Berlin circa 1981. That and also wondering how Christiane could run so fast from the cops in high heels! I kept expecting her to trip...she did trip, but it wasn't from her footwear choice. I thought the film was shot well and constructed well (because well, I was checking that out, like I said!), but I never believed the story for a second (and yes I know about that).
The actress who played Christiane was too fresh face for me to believe that she goes from baking a cake with her mom to shooting 'H' heroin. I mean she looked 12. All the kid actors looked a little too fresh faced and photogenic to be 'H' addicts.
'You hump with foreigners!'...That movie line cracked me up! It's curious that this German film has one of the worst insults that one can say to another as accusing them of 'humping a foreigner.' Best scene was the puke scene while they were trying to go clean and get off heroin. Wow, that vomit came up in force and was so pink, that is looked like Pepto Bismol. I liked how she puked away all the 'H' that was lined up on the bed, thus causing them to finish drying out.
At the end of the movie I learned this was a true story, I guess that's sad, but then again no one forced them to shoot up 'H'.
Christiane F. (1981)
Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (original title)Director: Uli Edel (as Ulrich Edel)
Writers: Herman Weigel, Christiane Felscherinow (novel)
Cast: Natja Brunckhorst, Eberhard Auriga, Peggy Bussieck
Genre: Biography Drama
Language: German
"A teen girl in 1970's 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."
Christiane F. for such a heady, dark subject I felt almost nothing while watching this film. Though I do think it's a well made film. Some films don't touch me emotionally. It just depends if I can suspend disbelief. With Christiane F I couldn't buy into what I was seeing. It all seemed to much like an educational 1980s anti-drug movie. I think I've seen too many movies as I end up watching them to see how they're constructed.
My primary interest with Christiane F. was getting a first hand look at Berlin circa 1981. That and also wondering how Christiane could run so fast from the cops in high heels! I kept expecting her to trip...she did trip, but it wasn't from her footwear choice. I thought the film was shot well and constructed well (because well, I was checking that out, like I said!), but I never believed the story for a second (and yes I know about that).
The actress who played Christiane was too fresh face for me to believe that she goes from baking a cake with her mom to shooting 'H' heroin. I mean she looked 12. All the kid actors looked a little too fresh faced and photogenic to be 'H' addicts.
'You hump with foreigners!'...That movie line cracked me up! It's curious that this German film has one of the worst insults that one can say to another as accusing them of 'humping a foreigner.' Best scene was the puke scene while they were trying to go clean and get off heroin. Wow, that vomit came up in force and was so pink, that is looked like Pepto Bismol. I liked how she puked away all the 'H' that was lined up on the bed, thus causing them to finish drying out.
At the end of the movie I learned this was a true story, I guess that's sad, but then again no one forced them to shoot up 'H'.