Moro returns to Alma-Ata to collect money owed to him. While waiting out an unexpected delay, he visits his former girlfriend Dina and discovers she has become a morphine addict. He decides to help her kick the habit and to fight the local drug mafia responsible for her condition.
Acting
Tsoi's effortless cool—he's playing himself, tragically.
Score
Kino's soundtrack haunts every frame like prophecy.
Production
Alma-Ata's concrete brutalism never looked this romantic.
Director
Rashid Nugmanov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This film helped spark the Kazakh New Wave and became instant legend when Tsoi died in 1990. Soviet kids treated it like sacred text.
The drug lord was played by Pyotr Mamonov, who later became Russia's most famous Orthodox mystic actor. Wild career pivot.
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