Traffik
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Synopsis
To Jack, a high-ranking British government minister, the drug problem has always been an abstract election issue, until a fact-finding visit to Pakistan coincides with a volcanic upheaval in his personal life.

Two years in research and filmed in three countries, Traffik follows the heroin trade from the slums of Karachi to the Houses of Parliament via Hamburg. It mixes the personal and the political to take you on a journey through a world ruled by greed and shadowed by death.

Starring:

Bill Paterson                       (Auf Wiedersehen, Pet  The Singing Detective, The Whistleblower)

Julia Ormond                     (Legends of the Fall, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, CSI; New York)

Lindsay Duncan                 (A Midsummer Night's Dream, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Rome)



To Jack, a high-ranking British government minister, the drug problem has always been an abstract election issue, until a fact-finding visit to Pakistan coincides with a volcanic upheaval in his personal life.



Two years in research and filmed in three countries, Traffik follows the heroin trade from the slums of Karachi to the Houses of Parliament via Hamburg. It mixes the personal and the political to take you on a journey through a world ruled by greed and shadowed by death.



This series was restored in 2006.



Starring:

Bill Paterson (Auf Wiedersehen, Pet The Singing Detective, The Whistleblower) Julia Ormond (Legends of the Fall, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, CSI; New York) Lindsay Duncan (A Midsummer Night's Dream, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Rome)

Duration
6 x 60'
Definition
SD
Genre
Drama
Subgenre
Series
Producer
n/a