"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.

With the series "Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo," Amazon Prime revisits the bestselling biographic novel and movie based on a teenager's story of addiction. In the late 1970s and early 80s, the harrowing ...

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.

I remember first finding a DVD of Christiane F. in Fopp in St. Andrews when I was about fourteen, and because the label covered the last two letters of the title, I thought, "A film with my name in it ...

This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 1970s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14-year-old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-story apartment ...

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 ...

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.,” ...