The Needle

Year: 1988

Runtime: 76 mins

Language: Russian

Director: Rashid Nugmanov

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Against a backdrop of Soviet rock and the legacy of Tsoi, Moro returns to Alma‑Ata to collect a debt. An unexpected delay leads him to his former girlfriend Dina, now trapped in a morphine addiction. Determined, he vows to pull her out and confront the local drug mafia that supplied her.

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