Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Christiane F.: A True Story (1981)

Released April 2nd in the US.
Filmed in Germany.
Based on truths.
The story : Christiane is a young girl , going on 14 in fact.
She lives a boring life with her mother and her sister.
Christiane wants to go to the new disco in town and gets a classmate who goes there all the time to take her.
At the disco , Christiane meets a bunch of kids her girlfriend has been running with. They all do some sort of drugs.
Back at home , Christiane finds that her little sister is going to live with their dad and her mom's only concern is with entertaining her new boyfriend.
Neither realize Christiane is even around.
So Christiane wastes more and more time at the disco and in the company of people she met there who are now using "H".
She falls for a nice kid who gradually gets addicted to "H".
Because of wanting to be just like him , Christiane starts her dance with "H" as well.
But the couple finds that the drug is ruining their lives and their friends lives.
Stars Natja Brunckhorst , Christiane Lechle , Daniela Jaeger , Ellen Esser , Thomas Haustein , Jens Kuphal , Uwe Diderich , Jan Georg Effler , Andreas Fuhrmann , David Bowie , Lutz Hemmerling , Bernhard Janson , Rainer Woelk , Lothar Chamski , Peggy Bussieck , Eberhard Auriga
Directed by Uli Edel
Rated R
German with English subtitles
BIOGRAPHY/DRAMA



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