Three (!!) years since I saw Christiane F for the first time. Let's just say that the movie changed my brain chemistry forever.
The movie, the book and the TV show all means a lot to me, and it's one of my biggest hyperfixations ever. The way I got to see certain locations in Berlin back in 2022 was so cool.
I'll never forget about Christiane, Detlef, Axel, Babsi, Stella, Atze, or anyone else. <3
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.