Cicuta

Cicuta

10.0IMDb Score
Released:2002-12-01
Genre:Drama
Duration:104 min
Country:Ukraine
Director:Alexander Shapiro
Actors:Volodymyr Horianskyi, Kostiantyn Shaforenko, Alexandr Prischepa, Yuri Nezdymenko, Anton Komyakhov
Production:TFS Production

Overview:

Pseudo-documentary style drama about drug addicts. In Kyiv, a dealer named Baroque receives an unknown psychedelic that opens access to another dimension.

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