Traffik (1989)★ 8.4/10
- Crime
- Drama
- Mystery
- Thriller
Directed by: Alastair Reid
Written by: Simon Moore
The Hamburg police arrest an international businessman, charging him with smuggling heroin from Pakistan. While he's on trial, his trophy wife, a former Olympic swimmer, discovers steely ruthlessness within herself.
- Original title
- Traffik
- Storyline
- The Hamburg police arrest an international businessman, charging him with smuggling heroin from Pakistan. While he's on trial, his trophy wife, a former Olympic swimmer, discovers steely ruthlessness within herself. In Pakistan, the British home minister tours the poppy-eradication project and returns to London to find that his daughter is a heroin addict. While trying to save her, and helped by a crusading attorney, he learns the limits of government policy. Fazal, a peasant burned off his land where he farmed poppies, goes to Karachi and works for Tarik Butt, a murderous drug lord. Fazal's frankness and sense of worth are his strength and his liability. Stories cross and collide.
- Rating
- 8.4 / 10 · 1,684
- Companies
- Carnival Film & Television, Channel 4 Television Corporation, Picture Partnership, WGBH, Acorn Media, France 2 (FR2), Memphis Belle, Pacific Arts Video, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Umbrella Entertainment
- Release dates
- GB June 22, 1989
- US April 22, 1990
- NL January 6, 1992