So I randomly decided to check out the show on Amazon Prime again to see if any bonus material (I'm still craving those deleted scenes) was added and I found out that there is this whole trivia section with little fun facts or just interesting side notes written by someone who worked on the show. These were some of my favourites:
At Christiane's home the broken kitchen light flickered when "Zoologischer Garten" was first mentioned, foreshadowing the harrowing future meaning of this place.
It was Dijan who cut Axel's hair. I can't, help, whyyyy.
Axel was really stalked by the Stasi. It wasn't in his head. Wtf.
Christiane waited for Benno at the station for 8 fucking hours.
The other old lady living with Babsi and the grandma was the grandma's sister and she doesn't talk because the grandma is so extravagant and powerful and just a bitch.
The necklaces of Christiane and Benno are supposed to reference Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen, somehow.
The last scene zoomes out from the heroin the same way it did when heroin first came up in the show with Axel injecting it.
When Michi can't open the bottle it's because he grew up, lost his child-like marveling and lost faith in himself :(
When Benno and Christiane meet in Gropiusstadt (where Axel sees them) she was supposed to be on her way back from school, but the production team forgot to give her a backpack in the scene.
There were also lots of facts about production background and costume choices. Very interesting.
Last week I was on a bus telling my friend about wkbz and an old lady who sat next to us randomly started participating in the conversation. She said she used to live in Berlin when the book and movie came out, so she told us about how accurate it was and what impact it had on politics and stuff. It was super interesting.
It's december which means the two year anniversary since I watched Christiane F (1981) for the first time. (The 14th is the actual date.)
Since then, Christiane F has become one of my biggest hyperfixations. I've seen the movie and tv show several times, I've bought and read the book. I've been to Berlin and Gropiusstadt as well!
Even if I have moved onto other special interests, anything related to Christiane F or Berlin in the 70's, will always have a special place in my heart. <3 Her story forever changed my brain chemistry.
Coming back to this account right now because today someone said my looks reminded them of Babsi and although I’m not as deep in the wkbz matter as I used to it still made me very happy to hear that and find someone irl who knows the show. :)
So sad. When I went to Berlin for the first time in november, I could still access the place at Jebensstraße where real life Detlef was standing in that famous picture, right next to the exit. I wasn't able to walk along the entire way, but much of the parts that are mostly shown in the movie. Then when I happened to be in Berlin again in June, there was already so much more construction work and now it looks like it got even more :(.
still sad i couldn't get in there because they were doing construction work :((
I also remember reading this and I was so shocked. Like, it's crazy how the filming process was so close to the reality of the story.
this was also pretty interesting
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