Traffik - Season 1 Episode 1 The Farmer
In Hamburg, a popular young German businessman is arrested and accused of being a drugs trafficker. His British wife, Helen, is faced with social and financial ruin and decides to take the family's future into her own hands.
Jack Lithgow, a minister at the British Home Office, is responsible for overseeing a new aid agreement with Pakistan to reduce production of opium there. He visits Pakistan on a fact-finding mission and is approached by Fazal, a local farmer who complains bitterly that the aid and promised grants never reach the local communities.
The story in Pakistan follows Fazal and other farmers once their illegal poppy fields have been discovered.
Year: 1989
Country: United Kingdom
Studio: Channel 4
Director:
Cast: Bill Paterson, Lindsay Duncan, Jamal Shah, Vincenzo Benestante, Talat Hussain, Juraj Kukura
Crew: Brian Eastman (Producer), Alastair Reid (Director), Tim Souster (Music), Simon Moore (Writer), Clive Tickner (Director of Photography), Michael Stevenson (Second Assistant Director)
First Air Date: Jun 22, 1989
Last Air date: Jul 24, 1989
Season: 1 Season
Episode: 6 Episode
Runtime: 315 minutes
IMDb: 7.57/10 by 21.00 users
Popularity: 1.7404
Language: English, German, Urdu
Season
Season 1
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