Heroin
Synopsis
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.
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Principal cast & crew: 17
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Edited by Hildegard ConradShot by Horst E BrandtScored by Helmut NierDesigned by Paul Lehmann
Box Office
1968 · Box office
Produced on a $82 budget
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$82
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Cast & Crew
17 unique people credited
Top billed cast
Gunther Simon
as Zollkommissar Zinn
Gunter Wolf
as Hauptmann Kremm
Werner Dissel
as Zollrat Donkenberg
Walter Lendrich
as Milan Nemanja
Aleksandar Gavric
as Florian Garaschin
Eva Maria Hagen
as Danuta Tisza
Walter Jupe
as Robert Chevonne
Wolfgang Greese
as Pierre Armiac
Alenka Rancic
as Lucia Nemanja
Predrag Milinkovic
as Ferri Nemanja
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2Other crew
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