Traffik - The Front Line In The War On Drugs (2 discs)
1989, 316 minutes, Rated R
The original Emmy and Bafta award winning mini-series that inspired the Oscar winning film traffic starring Michael Douglas, Traffik is a devastating portrait of the global heroin trade extending from the poppy fields of Pakistan through the drug syndicates of Hamburg to the needle-infested haunts of London.
Showing how the drug trade taints the lives of all involved, Traffik is a spellbinding chronicle of the people growing, selling, using and outlawing heroin, and stars bill Paterson (the singing detective) as an English minister trying to secure a financial-aid agreement with Pakistan to eradicate poppy production; his life is shattered however when heroin infiltrates his own family.
"Like the singing detective, Alastair Reid's award-winning 1989 British miniseries has taken on mythic status" wrote Amazon's Donald Liebenson of this brutal portrayal of modern opium trafficking and the war on drugs.
- Director:
- Alastair Reid [6],
- Starring:
- Julia Ormond [13], Bill Paterson [21], Lindsay Duncan [29],
- Screen Formats:
- Full Frame 1.33:1
- Language and Sound:
- English Dolby Digital Stereo
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