Director Uli Edel's harrowing tale of addiction and despair from 1981 has lost none of its feverish, raw power.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Christiane F.," the 1981 cult classic nightmare vision of a teen girl's descent into heroin addiction in West Berlin, makes even ...

Ahead of Trainspotting by 15 years, Christiane F. was a lightning-rod social event upon its release, with its gruesome, ...

Christiane Felscherinow wouldn’t recognise any more the area around Berlin’s Zoo Station. The vacant, scrubby site opposite is now a Waldorf Astoria hotel; the adjacent neon-lit arcade of kebab shops ...

Christiane Felscherinow was still a child when she became the most famous heroin addict in the world. Her descent, aged 13, into heroin addiction and prostitution on the streets of West Berlin was ...