On the plunge of an addictive teenager

"Amazon" presents a children's series from the "Bahnhof" Zoo.

The eight-part series will show the contrasting psychological state of drug addiction.

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Berlin is famous for its wild partying methods, including laxity towards drug use, but a new TV series, slated for the first time on "Amazon Prime Video", will show a darker side of the German capital, and the series is based on a 1978 memoir about the fall of a teenage girl into a chasm. Addiction.

And the series, entitled "Children from the Bahnhof Zoo," is a replay of the famous German book, in which the heroine, Christiana F, recovers her addiction.

The book was initially a series of articles that appeared in the magazine "Stern" in 1978, and shook West Germany when it was published, then it became in the "best-selling" category, and was converted into a movie starring David Bowie.

Producer Oliver Berben said the series, which has eight parts, will reflect the divergent psychological state of drug addiction.

Actress Jana Mackinnon, who plays Christiana F, is relatively unknown, like many of the other actors in the series, which is due to be shown tomorrow, and the producers were looking for "unknown faces."

The exterior of the Bahnhof Zoo, a train station near the Tiergarten Park in central Berlin, and the Zoo, were modified by computer to the same as it was in the 1970s, but the interior was faithfully recreated in an industrial complex in Prague for filming the series.

And the organizers of the series made a conscious decision not to film it in the present time, because "what makes this story distinctive is that the young people were communicating completely differently, because they did not have cell phones."

• Work producers looked for "unknown faces."

• The work is based on re-examining a famous German book.

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