Film

The Needle

Age rating

18+

Director

Rashid Nugmanov

Year

1989

Tsoi, drugs and Soviet rock.

Moro returns to Alma-Ata to collect money owed to him. While waiting out an unexpected delay, he visits his former girlfriend Dina and discovers she has become a morphine addict. He decides to help her kick the habit and to fight the local drug mafia responsible for her condition.