Traffik Movie Review 1990

A tense, unnerving look at the international world of heroin smuggling. The British drama follows the lives of three men involved in the drug trade: a farmer in the poppy fields of Pakistan, a drug smuggler in Hamburg, and a Tory cabinet minister who heads his government's anti-drug cabinet and then comes to realize his own daughter is an addict. The basis for Steven Soderbergh's much-lauded 2000 film "Traffic."

Distribution

PBS Home Video, Catalog Fulfillment Center, PO Box 751089, Charlotte, NC 28275-1089, Phone: (800)531-4727, Toll-free: 800-645-4PBS, Email: info@pbs.org, URL: http://www.pbs.org

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 360 minutes.
Originally from British.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Drug Use & Abuse

Screenplay

Simon Moore

Cast

Lindsay Duncan, Bill Paterson, Jamal Shah, Talat Hussain, Fritz Muller-Scherz, Julia Ormond, Knut Hinz, Feryal Gauhar Shah, Peter Lakenmacher, Vincenzo Benestante

Cinematography

Clive Tickner

Director

Alastair Reid

Music

Tim Souster

Other

Jon Gregory, Andrew McClelland, Neil Thomson, Martyn Hebert, Hans Zillmann