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Lilja 4-Ever
Why this pick
Its close focus on an abandoned teenage girl carries the same devastating vulnerability, social realism, and sense of a life narrowing under forces she cannot control.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A teen girl in 1970's Berlin becomes addicted to heroin. Everything in her life slowly begins to distort and disappear as she befriends a small crew of junkies and falls in love with a drug-abusing male prostitute.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
David Bowie
Himself
Andreas Fuhrmann
Atze
Natja Brunckhorst
Christiane