An evening with Christiane F. on Arte

“We children from Bahnhof Zoo” tells the life story of Christiane Felscherinow. A young woman who grew up surrounded by drugs and prostitution in Berlin in the 1970s. In a theme evening, Arte is now showing the film adaptation of the book from 1981 of the same name and then the reports “Kino im Rausch” and “Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo: Lost Generation”.

Review: “Christiane F.”:

“Cinema intoxicated”

Why was the story about a girl who loses herself more and more in a drug delirium so popular? The documentary “Kino im Rausch” is dedicated to this question. In the report on the film, director Uli Edel, screenwriter Herman Weigel, producer Hans Weth and actor Thomas Haustein talk about the difficult conditions of shooting and working with David Bowie, among other things. The zeitgeist of the early 1980s is also traced.

“Christiane F. – We children from Bahnhof Zoo: Lost Generation”

Then the documentary “Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo: Lost Generation” will be shown. A film about the apparent hopelessness in the Federal Republic of Germany at that time, when young people like Christiane F. found their only consolation in the consumption of intoxicants. “It was the quiet, unobtrusive revolt, the cry of a youth that was only noticed when it was too late. They were called the lost generation,” says Arte.

An evening with Christiane F. on February 09, 2022 on Arte

• 8.15 p.m. – “We children from Bahnhof Zoo”
• 10.20 p.m. – “Cinema intoxicated”
• 11:15 p.m. – “Christiane F. – We children from Bahnhof Zoo: Lost Generation”