Watch Christiane F. - Wir Kinder Vom Bahnhof Zoo (1981) Free Online

Release Date: 1981

Cast: Natja Brunckhorst, David Bowie

Categories: Movies, Biographical film, Indie, World cinema

Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo is a 1981 film that portrays the drug scene in West Berlin in the 1970s, based on the non-fiction book of the same name written following tape recordings of Christiane F. The movie acquired immediate cult status (which still retains today) and features David Bowie as both himself and the soundtrack composer, which gave the movie notable initial commercial boost. In 1975, 12-year-old Christiane Felscherinow lives with her mother and little sister in a small apartment in a typical multi-storey concrete condo building in a dull neighbourhood in the... MORE

Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo is a 1981 film that portrays the drug scene in West Berlin in the 1970s, based on the non-fiction book of the same name written following tape recordings of Christiane F. The movie acquired immediate cult status (which still retains today) and features David Bowie as both himself and the soundtrack composer, which gave the movie notable initial commercial boost. In 1975, 12-year-old Christiane Felscherinow lives with her mother and little sister in a small apartment in a typical multi-storey concrete condo building in a dull neighbourhood in the outskirts of West Berlin. She's sick and tired of living there and has a passion for singer David Bowie. She hears of Sound, a new disco in the city center, labelled as the most modern discothèque in Europe. Although she's legally too young to go there, she dresses up in high heels, wears makeup, and asks a friend from school, who hangs out there regularly, to take her, too. At the disco, she meets Detlef, who is a little older and is in a clique where everybody experiments with various drugs. At first she takes pills and LSD, and goes to a David Bowie concert in which she meets Babsi, a girl of LESS