Skip to main content
Filmarian
All films
Poster for Christiane F.
Sign in to rateBe the first to rate
+ write a review
Released
1981 · FILM

Christiane F.

A disillusioned Berlin teen seeks belonging, only to be drawn into the deadly grip of heroin, where every high threatens to ruin her fragile future.

“The image of a generation.”

Directed by
Uli Edel
Written by
Christiane Felscherinow, Kai Hermann
Runtime
131 min
Language
DE
BiographyDrama
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

Set in 1970s Berlin, the story follows a teenage girl who becomes addicted to heroin. As her life gradually unravels, she forms friendships with a group of drug users and develops a romantic relationship with a male prostitute who also abuses drugs.

Credits

Actors
Editor
Production Designer
Director of Photography
Writers
Director

Related titles

No curated related titles yet. Use the edit affordance to add "More from this director", "Same franchise", or "Adaptation source material" entries — every change goes through the wiki review queue.

How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 37

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Jane SeitzShot by Jurgen JurgesScored by Jurgen KnieperDesigned by Rainer Schaper

Box Office

1981 · Box office

Produced on a $4.0M budget

Production budget

$4.0M

Also known as

  • Christiane F.de
  • Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoode
  • We Children from Bahnhof Zooen
  • Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zooes
  • Moi, Christiane F., 13 ans, droguée, prostituée…fr
  • Christiane F. - Noi, i ragazzi dello zoo di Berlinoit

Community tags

Be the first to tag this page — tags appear right away. Try a theme, capability, or subject (e.g. WWII, heist, slow burn, time travel, A24).

Help complete this page

We’re missing mpaa rating. Sign in to add what you know.