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Heroin

  • March 1968
  • 1hr

    25mins

  • Crime
  • Directed by

    Heinz Thiel,

    Horst E. Brandt,

    Starring

    Günther Simon,

    Günter Wolf,

    Werner Dissel,

    Walter Lendrich

    ...

    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.