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When Zoo Station – The Story of Christiane F. was published in West Germany in 1979 it shocked the public but became an international best seller. The book tells the true story of Christiane Felscherinow, a West Berlin teenager who prostitutes herself to pay for her heroin consumption, bringing to light the extent of German youth’s drug problem. This portrayal of miserable lives of young drug addicts living and dying in train stations and public toilets across the country caused a brutal social shock.
Zoo Station: The Story of Christiane F. is a documentary that deals with the consequences induced by the publication of the book in Germany. The newly restored Christiane F., the 1981 cult classic nightmare vision of a teen girl’s descent into heroin addiction in West Berlin, was called "one of the most horrifying movies I have ever seen" by Roger Ebert.
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