The Needle
Tsoi, drugs and Soviet rock.
Rating: 6.8 out of 10TMDB(94 votes)
Overview
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.
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Filming locations
Filmed in Kazakhstan
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Setting
Set in Kazakhstan
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Music
Music by Viktor Tsoi
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Aleksandr BaranovWriter
- Bakhyt KilibayevWriter
- Original title
- Игла
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- February 13, 1989
- Original language
- Russian
- Countries
- Soviet Union, Kazakhstan
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In the United States
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