Christiane F.

(1981)

★ 7.3 IMDb · 1,473 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1981

Runtime: 138 мин

Country: Germany

Director: Ули Эдель

Cast: Натя Брункхорст, Томас Хауштайн, Йенс Куфаль, Райнер Вёлк, Jan Georg Effler, Christiane Reichelt, Daniela Jaeger, Kerstin Richter, Eberhard Auriga, Lothar Chamski

Plot

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.

This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 1970s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14-year-old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-story apartment building in Berlin. She's fascinated by 'The Sound', a new disco with the most modern equipment. Although legally she's too young, she asks a friend to take her. There, she meets Detlef, who's in a clique where everybody's on drugs. Step by step she gets drawn deeper into the scene.