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Natja Brunckhorst (Actor), Thomas Haustein (Actor), Uli Edel (Director) Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over Format: DVD
4.5 out of 5 stars 52 customer reviews
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  • Actors: Natja Brunckhorst, Thomas Haustein, Jens Kuphal, Rainer Woelk, Jan Georg Effler
  • Directors: Uli Edel
  • Format: Subtitled, PAL, Widescreen, Anamorphic, Colour
  • Language: German
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.66:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Second Sight
  • DVD Release Date: 28 Aug. 2000
  • Run Time: 125 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (52 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004W0T9
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,571 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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Gritty drama based on the true confessions of 13-year-old Christiane (played here by Natja Brunckhorst), a girl who lives with her mother in a high-rise tower block, gets into drugs after visiting an ultra-modern disco known as the 'Sound', and eventually becomes a prostitute in order to pay for her heroin addiction. This hard-hitting film is set against the background music of David Bowie, who also appears briefly in a concert scene.

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5.0 out of 5 starsFrightening and unflinching
By A Customer on 13 Dec. 2002
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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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5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent & authentic
By Dr. C. D. Connaughton on 12 Feb. 2006
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.
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5.0 out of 5 starsDark, deep dive into humanity
By David Wisely on 15 Jun. 2009
Format: DVD
If you've never been addicted to anything then it is incredibly hard to understand how it starts and drives you to complete desperation. Watch CF and you will understand - the self-deception comes across superbly, the trigger of old friends, places pushing C back to heroin use. The film was shot without permission in several laces with an amateur cast - Natja Brunckhorst (CF) comes across as a teenager who just falls into a dark adult world almost out of curiosity - 13 going on 25.
The atmosphere of W Berlin in the 70s also comes across - the sense of isolation, the dismal post-war housing, the student anger.
But don't watch the film if you are feeling down or depressed! Even the final message that CF is "clean" leaves you thinking "I don't believe it" - she is so damaged she will never have a normal or happy life (in 2008 she has just been busted again and had her son taken into care).
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5.0 out of 5 starsCompulsory viewing
By A Customer on 1 Aug. 2003
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
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)
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5.0 out of 5 starsWelcome to Hell
By Franz Bieberkopf on 7 May 2007
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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 drug subculture of West Berlin in the 1970s.The actors are mainly amateurs,but they come up with impressive performances.

The soundtrack by David Bowie(who lived in Berlin in the late 1970s)is great,with the jolly,optimistic sound of "Heroes" at the start,then,as the film goes on,being replaced by the eerie electronic sounds of the "Low" and "Heroes" albums.His own cameo performing a fine rendition of "Station to Station"is worth a watch too.

If you have teenage children,it will be your worst nightmare come true,but you may find they enjoy it too(my 17 year old neice thought it was great).
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4.0 out of 5 starsSadness is but a wall between two gardens.
By Darcy on 28 Jun. 2013
Format: DVD
Sometimes you come across a film, yet you are young and immature to understand the true meaning of the film. I initially watched this film in my teens and in all honesty I did not think too much of it at the time!! Now that I am a parent of a young child, I decided to watch it again and this time the true significance of this film sank in.

Life can sometimes feel like a series of lucky or in the case of Christiane a series of unlucky circumstances. The film centres on Christiane, played brilliantly by Natja Brunkhorst who lives with her mother in 70's Berlin. Her life is filled with loneliness and boredom... to fit in with the it crowd she starts to experiment with soft drugs, which then escalates to more dangerous substances.

Highly recommended to parents, especially in today's fast paced environment that we live in, where parents and children spend less time communicating and where children (and adults) spend more and more time in the virtual world, then communicating face-to-face.

This film has highlighted to me the importance of nurturing a trusting relationship with my daughter and that listening is a vital skill for the 21st century.
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5.0 out of 5 starsmind-blowing experience
By C. Morgan on 13 Mar. 2009
Format: DVD
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 movie. Absolutely the most authentic and gut-wrenching story I have ever experienced.
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5.0 out of 5 starsWe children from Zoo Station
By Jason Parkes #1 HALL OF FAME on 9 Oct. 2002
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This film was reissued in 2000 , as with films like Salo, Straw Dogs & The Texas Chainsaw Massacre it had taken on a mythic quality- having largely been unavailable on video and dealing with controversial subjects.
Ulrich Edel (Last Exit to Brooklyn) based this film on a 'true story'- which with the sensational scribe on the back of the cover makes you expect a work of exploitation. This film couldn't be farther away from...
For example, the love scene is shot in a way that the 14 year old subject is not fetishised and the whipping scene comes across as a vile reversal of power, in tandem with a body becoming currency to feed addiction.
Christiane F details the discovery of what Celine called 'the other side of life'; her subsequent fall into addiction and prostitution are the results of that discovery and freedom.
Edel captures 70's Berlin with wonderful visuals, such as the scene on top of the Mercedes building (this is aided by music from Bowie's Berlin Trilogy: Low, "Heroes" & Lodger & the albums Stage and Station to Station). These songs suit the shopping centres, then the epitomy of futurism and the scene to the single version of "Heroes" feels like something between the shopping centre scene in Romper Stomper and the world of JG Ballard (Crash, High Rise). Edel uses Bowie's music as wonderfully as Pennebaker did with Ziggy Stardust, Schrader with Cat People, David Fincher with Se7en and David Lynch did with Lost Highway.
The Sound club soundtracks the hedonistic lifestyle with plenty of Bowie classics- TVC15, Look Back in Anger & Boys Keep Swinging. There is also a great sequence of Bowie in concert playing the Stage-version of Station to Station; Bowie looks great- as great as he did when he did "Heroes" on Top of The Pops in 1978.Read more ›
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