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The Needle

Игла

1989

Returning to Alma-Ata to collect a debt, a laconic drifter finds his old girlfriend hooked on morphine and resolves to help her kick it and take on the dealers who supply her. A cult perestroika-era classic starring rock icon Viktor Tsoi.

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