THE NEEDLE

USSR / 1988

81 min / Russian dialogue 

Director: RACHID NOUGMANOV
Producer: KAZAKHFILM STUDIOS
Screenwriter: ALEXANDER BARANOV & BAKHYT KILIBAYEV
Cinematographer: MURAT NOUGMANOV
Cast: VICTOR TSOY, PETR MAMONOV, MARINA SMIRNOVA, ALEXANDER BASHIROV

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 maphia responsible for her condition. But Moro finds a deadly opponent in “the doctor,” the mafia kingpin who is exploiting Dina.