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topic: Need help identifying a flick!! |
geodem
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post #1
on June 7, 2004 - 2:50 PM PDT
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Lots of foreign film experts here, so I'm confident someone will help me remember the title of a German film I rented on VHA a few years ago -- it probably dates from the early/mid-eighties.
Plot revolves around young teenage girl living in post-war Germany (Berlin?) who's a self-destructive delinquent. She picks up a series of American G.I.s and it gets darker from there -- concluding with her suicide (or so I believe). The music playing under the title-crawl as she walks into the water is (of this I'm certain!) the haunting aria from Purcell's "King Arthur" -- "What Power art thou."
It's been bugging me for awhile, now -- any clue to the title? Director?
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SDChas
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on June 8, 2004 - 4:21 PM PDT
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I think you mean "Christiane F".
At IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082176/
I could sorta visualize the cover but could not remember the name. So, I did a search of IMDB for 'Berlin' under plots to find the title.
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Eoliano
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SDChas
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post #4
on June 8, 2004 - 5:04 PM PDT
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> On June 8, 2004 - 4:45 PM PDT Eoliano wrote:
Oops: your link does not work - because the search name did not become part of the link.
Try this one:
Christian F
Yes GC does have it. I did not bother to look. Thanks Eoliano.
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Eoliano
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post #5
on June 8, 2004 - 5:07 PM PDT
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| Oops, right you are. Must've hastily grabbed the search link in the address bar instead of the title shortcut. [g] |
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geodem
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post #6
on June 8, 2004 - 5:33 PM PDT
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Grazie molto, one and all! The title eluded me despite countless searches -- and the movie probably wasn't all that good, but I'd like to see that dreary ending with the Purcell aria once more.
> On June 8, 2004 - 5:07 PM PDT Eoliano wrote:
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> Oops, right you are. Must've hastily grabbed the search link in the address bar instead of the title shortcut. [g]
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IVLIA
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post #7
on July 15, 2004 - 9:11 PM PDT
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Hi. Is everyone sure this is Christiane F? I wish I knew the name of the film you're looking for, but I don't think it's Christiane F, a film made in the late 70s. The latter takes place in Germany, yes, and the title character is self-destructive, but that's about all they have in common. Christiane doesn't committ suicide. She does turn tricks but not with G.I.s. And there's no Purcell in the film--most of the music is Bowie or similar glitter-era rock.
Again, wish I had the answer, alas. But I'd still rent Christiane F; it's a good film.
> On June 7, 2004 - 2:50 PM PDT geodem wrote:
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> Lots of foreign film experts here, so I'm confident someone will help me remember the title of a German film I rented on VHA a few years ago -- it probably dates from the early/mid-eighties.
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> Plot revolves around young teenage girl living in post-war Germany (Berlin?) who's a self-destructive delinquent. She picks up a series of American G.I.s and it gets darker from there -- concluding with her suicide (or so I believe). The music playing under the title-crawl as she walks into the water is (of this I'm certain!) the haunting aria from Purcell's "King Arthur" -- "What Power art thou."
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> It's been bugging me for awhile, now -- any clue to the title? Director?
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> GD
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