Christiane F. We Children From The Zoo Station (1981)

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Synopsis

Dir: Uli Edel. German-language Drama. Based on the book 'Zoo Station: The Story Of Christiane F.' by Kai Hermann Horst Rieck. A teenage girl in 1970s Berlin (Natja Brunckhorst) becomes addicted to heroin after falling in love with drug-addicted male prostitute (Thomas Haustein).

Content elements

• Infrequent use of the sexual expletive, most in a sexual context; infrequent use of scatological slang and cursing
• Infrequent portrayals of hand-to-hand violence - no blood or detail; infrequent portrayals of corpses in an overdose context - no blood, some detail
• Frequent references to addiction, withdrawal, and death - some detail
• Infrequent portrayals of sexual activity, all involving teens - some detail, buttock nudity, and flogging in a BDSM context
• Infrequent portrayals of breast and male frontal nudity in a non-sexual context; infrequent portrayals of male genital nudity in a pictorial context - little detail
• Frequent portrayals of illegal substance abuse in an addiction context - detail; infrequent portrayals of tobacco and alcohol use in a recreational context
• Infrequent portrayals of crude bodily functions, most in a withdrawal context - detail

Thematic elements

• Coming of age
• Addiction
• Recovery

Classification rationale

Rated 18A for substance abuse and sexual content

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