Christiane felscherinow biography of christopher
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She brought flowers. Standing in the doorway, Christiane Felscherinow removes dahlias, asters and sunflowers from the wrapping paper as though she's been invited to coffee. Her green eyes are carefully lined, her boots are freshly polished and she looks put-together in her plaid blouse. Only her hands seem to contradict this neat appearance. They are covered with a web of small scars, the traces of countless needle wounds.
Felscherinow is here to promote herself. Dozens of people are keen to speak with her at a meeting in the offices of Levante, a small Berlin publishing house releasing the sequel to her biography this week. The 1979 book and subsequent film, "Christiane F. -- Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo," or "Christiane F. -- We Children from Zoo Station," made her Germany's most famous heroin addict. Her story, a bestseller when it was published 35 years ago, introduced the German public for the first time to a world that remains shocking today -- one in which children living in West Berlin systematically destroyed their bodies and souls with drugs .
"Hardly anyone at the time would have believed that I would still be here today," she says. She seems lost in thought, and not triumphant in the least. Sitting on a large leather sofa, her voice sounds ten
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How we made Christiane F – the shocking cult film about a child heroin addict
Natja Brunckhorst, played Christiane F
The director Uli Edel and his team came to my school. I was sitting there eating an apple. Uli’s assistant came up and said: “We’re looking for girls for a film. Do you want to try out?” I said: “OK, since you’ve asked me, I’ll come.”
They put makeup on me and dressed me up like a junkie. There were eight girls and we stood together in a row. The camera went from one girl to the next. Bernd Eichinger, the producer, told me years later that, when it came to me, everyone watching the audition in the screening room gasped. I looked too young, I was very shy, and my voice was low – but, they said, there was just something about my presence.
During filming, they would put drops in my eyes to give me this drugged-out look. Uli would say: “Your eyes are half-closed and you are feeling a little sick.” Or: “Now, you’re cramping, and you’re feeling really sick.” I’d say: “OK.” Then I’d just do it. I wasn’t thinking at all. It was trusting and doing – that’s what acting should be.
We shot a scene on Kurfürstenstraße. Christiane, my character, is standing alone waiting for someone to pick her up. It was a long lens shot so the camera team was far away. A car dr
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Christiane F.
Original title: Christiane F. - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo
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