Christiane F.
FILM|New 4K Restoration of Uli Edel's 1981 film
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AERO + Los Feliz 3 Theattres
- Language German/English/ English Subtitles
- Price $12 (AC member) | $17 (general)
In cooperation with the Goethe-Institut and the German Currents Film Festival, the American Cinematheque presents a limited engagement of the new 4k restoration of director Uli Edel's 1981 film CHRISTIANE F. on Friday, June 13th @ the American Cinematheque's Aero Theatre, and on June 19th + 22nd at the Los Feliz 3 Theatre.
West Germany (1980/81) 131 min. 4k Restoration - DCP . German/English with English Subtitles
Director Uli Edel, Screenplay Herman Weigel, Uli Edel, Based on the novel "Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo" Cinematography Justus Pankau, Jürgen Jürges, Cast Natja Brunckhorst, Thomas Haustein, Jens Kuphal, Rainer Wölk, Jan Georg Effler, Christiane Reichelt, Daniela Jaeger, Kerstin Richter,Christiane Lechle, David Bowie, Producers Bernd Eichinger, Hans Weth, Bertram Vetter, Co-producers Hans H. Kaden, Production Company Solaris Filmproduktions GmbH, Maran Film GmbH & Co. KG, Popular-Film GmbH, CLV-Filmproduktions GmbH, Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR).
Adapted from actress and musician Christiane Felscherinow’s harrowing account of her teenage years, CHRISTIANE F. depicts the impact of West Berlin’s mid-to-late-70s heroin epidemic on one of its youngest and luckiest survivors. On the cusp of fourteen, David Bowie-worshipping Christiane (Natja Brunckhorst) begins slipping out from under the watch of her divorced mother (Christiane Lechle) and spending time at hip discotheque Sound. There she falls in love with Detlev (Thomas Haustein), whose recent experiments with heroin soon have her hooked. Working with first-time actors and shooting on location with real-life regulars of Zoo Station’s notorious drug cruising scene, director Uli Edel unflinchingly captures the degradation of each phase of junkie life, from underage prostitution to brutal withdrawals to the seemingly endless vows to “go straight.” Bowie himself appears in a concert performance of “Station to Station”; the film’s soundtrack is a virtual compendium of the epochal musician’s celebrated “Berlin period” and a perfect sonic evocation of nightclubbing’s dark side.
(Janus Films)
West Germany (1980/81) 131 min. 4k Restoration - DCP . German/English with English Subtitles
Director Uli Edel, Screenplay Herman Weigel, Uli Edel, Based on the novel "Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo" Cinematography Justus Pankau, Jürgen Jürges, Cast Natja Brunckhorst, Thomas Haustein, Jens Kuphal, Rainer Wölk, Jan Georg Effler, Christiane Reichelt, Daniela Jaeger, Kerstin Richter,Christiane Lechle, David Bowie, Producers Bernd Eichinger, Hans Weth, Bertram Vetter, Co-producers Hans H. Kaden, Production Company Solaris Filmproduktions GmbH, Maran Film GmbH & Co. KG, Popular-Film GmbH, CLV-Filmproduktions GmbH, Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR).
Adapted from actress and musician Christiane Felscherinow’s harrowing account of her teenage years, CHRISTIANE F. depicts the impact of West Berlin’s mid-to-late-70s heroin epidemic on one of its youngest and luckiest survivors. On the cusp of fourteen, David Bowie-worshipping Christiane (Natja Brunckhorst) begins slipping out from under the watch of her divorced mother (Christiane Lechle) and spending time at hip discotheque Sound. There she falls in love with Detlev (Thomas Haustein), whose recent experiments with heroin soon have her hooked. Working with first-time actors and shooting on location with real-life regulars of Zoo Station’s notorious drug cruising scene, director Uli Edel unflinchingly captures the degradation of each phase of junkie life, from underage prostitution to brutal withdrawals to the seemingly endless vows to “go straight.” Bowie himself appears in a concert performance of “Station to Station”; the film’s soundtrack is a virtual compendium of the epochal musician’s celebrated “Berlin period” and a perfect sonic evocation of nightclubbing’s dark side.
(Janus Films)
Location
AERO + Los Feliz 3 Theattres
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