Summaries

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.—Tom Zoerner <[email protected]>

Christiane is a 14 year old girl living in Berlin, Germany during the mid 70s. She begins going to a club called "Sound" with her older friend Kessi. She soon makes new friends most of whom are drug addicts and falls for a boy named Detlev who is also a drug addict and a prostitute. Christiane starts taking pills to fit in and later starts taking heroin. Her life starts to fall apart as she becomes a full heroin addict and sees the same happening to her friends.—gramiakeliza

A bored, aimless 14-year-old girl falls into the drug scene in Berlin in the 1970s after attending 'The Sound', a modern new disco. In search of acceptance and freedom, she falls in with a teenage boy who is hooked on heroin and eventually develops an addiction of her own.—Anonymous

Details

Keywords
  • coming of age
  • drug addiction
  • heroin
  • west berlin west germany
  • death by overdose
Genres
  • Drama
  • Biography
Release date Apr 1, 1981
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) R
Countries of origin West Germany
Language German
Filming locations Europa-Center, Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany
Production companies Maran Film Solaris Film Popular Filmproduktion

Box office

Budget $4000000

Tech specs

Runtime 2h 18m
Color Color
Sound mix Mono
Aspect ratio 1.66 : 1

Synopsis

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