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Heroin

Heroin

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 14, 1968

Runtime

1h 25m

Genres

Crime

User Score

57%

Original Title

Heroin

Production Companies

DEFA, Bosna Film

Director

Heinz Thiel

Budget

$82

Description

This East German movie was co-produced with studios in Hungary and Yugoslavia, with many interesting location shots (border checkpoint to West Berlin, the Gellert bath in Budapest, and more). The plot is about French drug dealers, who obtain heroin somewhere in the Middle East, and smuggle it in several steps to East Berlin, and from there to France (or so it appears), killing when necessary. The hero is an officer of East German customs, who with detective work, some masquerade, and occasional violent action ultimately unravels the whole network, of course with the support of the local customs departments.