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1.66 Wide Screen
DVD 5
German
English subtitled
Region 2
Dolby Digital Surround German
Dolby Digital Surround
DVD 5
German
English subtitled
Region 2
Dolby Digital Surround German
Dolby Digital Surround
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
An excellent film about the descent into drug addiction of a 14 year old girl living on a Berlin housing estate - from a beautiful girl to a drug-crazed zombie lookalike.
It all rings horribly true and the characters are all extremely likeable, which makes the story all the more horrific. The acting, the photography, the scripting, and the direction are all first class. Definitely 5 stars.
It all rings horribly true and the characters are all extremely likeable, which makes the story all the more horrific. The acting, the photography, the scripting, and the direction are all first class. Definitely 5 stars.
25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I still consider that the viewing of this film at the cinema some twenty years ago was the main reason I stayed on the straight and narrow.
Although slightly dated now, the message remains powerfully the same
Although slightly dated now, the message remains powerfully the same
EVERY school kid should me made to watch this film at about the age of 15 (The 18 rating is also dated - this needs reclassifying)
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
It's difficult to do Christiane F justice in words, I could write pages and pages and I still wouldn't have got my point across. It is the most frightening, realistic, seedy, dark, dank and potent film I have ever seen. Edel and his fine young cast draw us into a world where even withdrawal is no way out, and the addicts, whilst being experienced junkies, clearly do not understand their situation - "we'll only smoke grass now and again." As the film progresses, the earlier "heroin chic" and constant referencing of David Bowie disappears, leaving only a world where there is no way out, just an ever-tightening circle of lies, false promises and bleakness. Look, just watch it, ok?
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
anti drugs ?
Watched this film at school at 14 years of age as part of a social studies class and have to say the general reaction from classmates was that it quite glamorized drug use. Read more
Published 15 months ago by byekitty
miss read advert !!
It's in German so it's now in the bin !!
my mistake completely, should have read the advert infull !!
my mistake completely, should have read the advert infull !!
Published 21 months ago by Nige
Well woth buying..
The Germans have made 3 classics-Downfall/Baader Meinhof and Christiane F.
tO THE PERSON WHO SAID ITS IN GERMAN-IT IS JUST PUT THE SUBTITLES ON. Read more
tO THE PERSON WHO SAID ITS IN GERMAN-IT IS JUST PUT THE SUBTITLES ON. Read more
Published on 1 Mar 2010 by S. E. Taylor
very good
very good film but made the mistake of buying in german language do not understand
Published on 9 Jan 2010 by D. Robinson
Excellent
Excellent film, excellent music a must see for all teenagers as a warning against drug abuse.
Published on 15 Dec 2009 by scruffy git
Dark, deep dive into humanity
If you've never been addicted to anything then it is incredibly hard to understand how it starts and drives you to complete desperation. Read more
Published on 15 Jun 2009 by David Wisely
mind-blowing experience
Forget the "willing suspension of disbelief" - you won't need it. Christiane F. is so believable I found myself wondering if the actors actually shot up heroin while filming the... Read more
Published on 13 Mar 2009 by C. Morgan
Welcome to Hell
This is a brilliant but nightmarish film.Based on a sequence of articles by two German journalists,later made into a book,it shows the decline of a teenage girl as she enters the... Read more
Published on 7 May 2007 by PygmyTwylyte
Petrifying
I found out that the actors were actually that young - wow....It's an old movie, yet worth seeing it.
Published on 18 May 2006 by Rossella Spoto
still shocks, despite the awful dubbing
I first saw the film in its original version in Germany and when I bought the video at home in the UK I was horrified at the hideous and clumsy Americanised dubbing. Read more
Published on 28 Oct 2004 by Claire Lindegaard Stewart
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