This is the original award-winning drama which inspired the Oscar-winning film Traffic. Powerful gripping and compelling viewing Traffik explores the murderous business of the heroin trade from opium fields in Pakistan to our very own front door. This spiderlike tale of creeping intensity revolves around Jack Lithgow a government minister whose engagement in tempering the drug trade flowing from Pakistan is affected by the discovery that his young daughter is a heroin addict and the realisation that his efforts are empty politics with little result. Parallel to this... runs the story of Fazal an opium farmer who when his crop is destroyed enslaves himself to a ruthless drug-dealer Tariq Butt crossing one line after another until everything he cares for is at risk. [show more]
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play This is the original award-winning drama which inspired the Oscar-winning film Traffic Powerful gripping compelling viewing and in many ways superior to the movie that followed Traffik explores the murderous business of the heroin trade from opium fields in Pakistan to our very own front door This spiderlike tale of creeping intensity revolves around Jack Lithgow a government minister whose engagement in tempering the drug trade flowing from Pakistan is affected by the discovery that his young daughter is a heroin addict and the realisation that his efforts are empty politics with little result Parallel to this runs the story of Fazal an opium farmer who when his crop is destroyed enslaves himself to a ruthless drug-dealer Tariq Butt crossing one line after another until everything he cares for is at risk Meanwhile in Germany two cops risk their lives to break the traffic of heroin into their country imprisoning one importer only to discover that his wife can be even more ruthless and more deadly They are all about to discover through life death and addiction that you can perhaps stop a shipment but you can never stop the Traffik
Complete 5 hour television drama series that gave rise to an Oscar-winning movie version a decade later. Taking a multi-faceted view of the drug trade, the drama plays out on a global stage, from the cultivation of narcotics in Pakistan and India, to the lives of the playboy rich in Europe. Bill Paterson stars as a Tory politician who discovers that his daughter (Julia Ormond) is addicted to heroin; meanwhile George Kukura is a Hamburg drug dealer, Lindsay Duncan his English assoociate, and Jamal Shah a Pakistani poppy farmer.
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