"Christiane F.," the 1981 cult classic nightmare vision of a teen girl's descent into heroin addiction in West Berlin, makes even "The Panic in Needle Park" look like a walk in the, well, you know.

‘Filming was banned at the station we shot at. So the cinematographer sat in a wheelchair, concealed the camera on his lap, and I pushed him around, following Natja cruising’ The director Uli Edel and ...

“At 12, it was angel dust. At 13, it was heroin. Then she took to the streets.” So screamed the tagline for Christiane F., Uli Edel’s debut feature, which documents the nosedive of an average German ...

Drug abuse takes center stage: The Amazon Prime eight-part series “We Children from Bahnhof Zoo” rolls out Christiane F.’s confessions of her heroin addiction as a timeless coming-of-age drama. Now, ...

West Germany, 1978. The publication of a harrowing book chronicling the miserable lives of young drug addicts living and dying in train stations and public toilets across the country causes a brutal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Christiane F.," the 1981 cult classic nightmare vision of a teen girl's descent into heroin addiction in West Berlin, makes even ...

Christiane F., trans. from the German by Christina Cartwright. Zest (HMH, dist.), $14.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-936976-22-5 A powerful memoir first published 35 years ago in Germany (a U.S.

Uli Edel worked with first-time actors and real drug users for this still-shocking 1981 portrait of a young addict's descent in West Berlin. It plays New York and Los Angeles in June. “Christiane F.,” ...