The read
Scores higher than 85% of the 1,366 1980s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes80%
1,475 audience votes
Key crew
- Uli EdelDirector
- Jürgen KnieperOriginal Music Composer
- Herman WeigelScreenplay
Cast
- Natja BrunckhorstChristiane
- Thomas HausteinDetlev
- Jens KuphalAxel
- Rainer WoelkLeiche
- Jan Georg EfflerBernd
- Christiane ReicheltBabsi
- Daniela JaegerKessi
- Kerstin RichterStella
- Eberhard AurigaOld Junkie
- Lothar ChamskiRolf
- Ellen EsserKessi's Mother
- Uwe DiderichKlaus
Themes
berlin, germanyheroinjunkieprostitutionillegal drugsdramaticcriticalintensecomplicatedinformative
The Best Movies of 1981
Christiane F. is #16 of 60
