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Christiane F.
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Christiane F.

1981-04-02 · 131 min · ★ 7.3

Drama

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.

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Production details

Directors
Uli Edel
Production companies
CLV-Filmproduktions, Solaris Film, Maran Film, Popular Filmproduktion
Countries
Germany
Status
Released
Budget
USD 4,000,000

Top Cast

Natja BrunckhorstNatja BrunckhorstChristiane
Thomas HausteinThomas HausteinDetlev
Jens KuphalJens KuphalAxel
Rainer WoelkRainer WoelkLeiche
Jan Georg EfflerBernd
Christiane ReicheltChristiane ReicheltBabsi
Daniela JaegerKessi
Kerstin RichterStella
Eberhard AurigaOld Junkie
Lothar ChamskiRolf
Ellen EsserKessi's Mother
Uwe DiderichKlaus
Andreas FuhrmannAtze
Lutz HemmerlingBienenstich
Bernhard JansonMilan
Christiane LechleChristiane's Mother
Kerstin MalessaTina
Cathrine SchabeckLinda
Peggy BussieckPuppi
Stanislaus SolotarStottermaxe

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