Heroin
Seen it?1968 | 85 min | Crime
Sunday Safe Betearly ratingWhy it’s a Sunday Safe Bet
People are still talking about it, though it had soft box office. A safe bet when you want something reliable.
Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.Is it for you?
- Who'll love it
- Made for crime fans. If you loved Pulp Fiction or Traffic, start here.
- The mood
- Gritty.
- The pace
- Moves along nicely, at 1 hr 25 min.
- What might put you off
- It's in German, so expect subtitles (or a dub).
- Made in 1968: an older pace and style.
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.
How it earned its rating
- CriticsNot counted
Not enough reviews on record yet
- AudiencesNot counted
Not measured yet: not enough ratings
- AwardsNot counted
No major awards or nominations
- Reach & staying powerBelow par
Streaming release that reached a small audience so far; still draws a steady audience long after release
- Buzz & cultural impactVery strong
About 616K people sought it out in the past year
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Cast & crew
Directed by Heinz Thiel, Horst E. Brandt
- Günther SimonZollkommissar Peter Zinn
- Günter WolfHauptmann Kremm
- Werner DisselZollrat Donkenberg
- Walter LendrichMilan Nemanja
- Aleksandar GavrićFlorian Garaschin
- Eva-Maria HagenDanuta Tisza
- Walter JupéChevonne
- Wolfgang GreeseArmiac
- Alenka RančićLucia Nemanja
- Predrag 'Preža' MilinkovićFerri Nemanja