All language subtitles for Traffik [1989] E01 - The Farmer

(Foghorn)

Welcome to Hamburg, gentlemen.

What about the passport-photo business?

(Beeping)

The room's clean.

(Beeping continues)

What's wrong?

Nothing. Tu es trop nerveux.

Nothing is wrong.

He's a little bit nervous
because we didn't make business before.

We're all nervous, aren't we?

So, where's the smack?

In the boot of my car,
down on the quayside.

Is there anybody else down at the car?

Maybe.

Were you followed here?

Do you think we'd be here if we were?
Asshole.

Tais-toi!

You want to try a sample?

You won't be disappointed. It's Pakistani.

85% pure.

I'd like to choose my own sample...
from the five kilos.

Mais, vraiment,
je suis pas content, hein?

Mais, arr�te.

I wish that jerk would shut up!

Calm down.

You show us the money
and we'll get the heroin for you.

OK. I am going to get up and go over there.

- He's a cop.
- I'm not a cop.

- What the hell is going on?
- They're cops!

- Cool it! We are not cops!
- C'est fichu, c'est rat�!

- What the hell's going on?
- They're cops!

He's too important to kill!

Aarrgh!

Mon pied! Merde! Mon pied!

Alles klar?

Ahh! Mon pied!

Geh zum Auto.

I'm dying! You've got to get
me to a hospital. (Groans)

It's only your foot, shut up.

Hier, ich brauch' den Schl�ssel.

I'm losing a lot of blood!
Phone for an ambulance.

(Groans loudly)

Schei�e! Leer!

All this used to be opium poppy,
as far as you can see.

We have made tremendous progress.

The opium cultivation in this region

has been cut down
from 800 tons a year to less than 40.

Mr Lithgow, we are only about nine miles
from the border with Afghanistan.

We are creating a completely new
infrastructure of agriculture.

The land has been irrigated.

The whole range of crops is being grown:
Maize, wheat, sugar cane, tobacco.

Tobacco, so we can all die of lung cancer
instead of heroin addiction, eh?

Yes!

It's a whole new scheme, Minister:

New schools, new hospitals,

new roads for the farmers
to get their produce to the market.

So why do they still grow opium?

The trouble with opium
is it's so easy to grow.

It doesn't need much water
nor much nutrients.

They're just weeds,
they'll grow anywhere around here.

They just happen to be
the richest weeds in the world.

Chalo! Chalo, chalo!

- Sab taiyaar hai?
- Taiyaar hai.

Chaliye.

I hope you haven't gone to all this trouble
just for me.

You said you wanted to see everything.

(Agitated shouting)

Aadmi bhaag gayaa re, samaan chhod ke!

He says the chemist has flown the coop.

But we have got all his equipment.
I hope this is of interest. Come!

This is where the heroin manufacturing
took place.

- You see the staining?
- Uh-huh?

You see, this is where the opium
is transformed into the morphine base.

My God! I thought it was going to be
test tubes and men in white coats.

Unfortunately, it's extremely easy
to manufacture heroin.

Hydrochloric acid, probably. Just leave it.

So, have they found any heroin here?

It's not exactly a major haul.

Perhaps they knew we were coming.

Gehen Sie weiter!

Weg!

Such!

Such!

Na, du, komm!

Such, sch�n such!

This road...
this road leads to the main highway

which goes all the way
from the North-West Province

to the sea port of Karachi in the south.

Most of the heroin travels along this road.

What's going on down there?

It's an army checkpoint.

Are they looking for heroin?

No, not just heroin, any contraband:

Arms, alcohol...

Smuggling is very much
in these people's blood.

Hello? Captain, niche chaliye, niche.

Hello? Kuchh Mila?

Hello? Kuchh Mila?

They don't seem to have found anything
this time, Minister.

(Foghorn)

(Coughs) Schei�e!

Ulli! Stop!

Hey! Halt!

A�e! �a me fait mal!

- I want to do a deal.
- How are you doing, Jackie?

- I'll bet that leg hurts.
- Stehen Sie bitte auf!

The real pleasure for me
is seeing you shoot yourself in your food.

Foot, Dieter, foot.

Foot. And add attempted murder
to the charges. (Laughs)

- And, Jesus, are they charges!
- Rauchen verboten!

I want to do a deal.

I want to live in Honolulu but
I don't think it's very likely. (Laughs)

If you give me immunity,
I can give you a lot of names.

You're a big-time courier!

We've got you with 70 kilos of heroin,
what are you gonna do with it?

- You're gonna shop junkies?
- I will tell you the whole network.

Oh, shut up! Go to prison!

Stehen Sie bitte auf.

I will tell you who
finances the whole thing.

I will go to court.

Are we interested in that, Ulli?
Was meinst du?

But... I need assurances.

I'm signing my death warrant
if I give you the name.

Hallo?

Ist Helen da?

'Hello? Karl? Are you all right?'

- Hi, darling.
- 'Darling, how are you?'

- I've been trying to get a line all day.
- 'It's so good to hear you!'

- I'm coming home.
- 'When?'

- Tomorrow.
- 'When?'

- Tomorrow at the latest!
- 'That's wonderful!'

Meet me at the airport.

'I'll bring the children with me.'

- Darling, I have to go.
- 'Take care!'

- I'll see you tomorrow. Tomorrow!
- 'Love you, Karl!'

- I'll phone in the flight when I know.
- 'I said I love you!'

- Bye.
- 'Bye, darling!'

Good morning, Mr Waheed.

Karl Rosshalde. May I introduce
Mr Lithgow from the British Home Office?

Pleased to meet you.

Herr Rosshalde is in charge of
the pumping station and all the projects.

- Please.
- Thank you.

Do you work for your own government?

Oh, no. I own a number of companies
that supply irrigation equipment.

I'm afraid my reasons for being here are
not altruistic. I'm just making a living.

Please.

Have you been in Pakistan long?
Your English is excellent.

I have an English wife and she is
lazy about learning German, so...

Please.

Here we have
a British and American aid area.

There are French engineers working here,
it's German pipeline and pumping equipment.

It's a bit like Berlin after the war,

all the different countries
with their projects.

I hope you are here to give us more money
to carry on our good work.

Unfortunately, I don't give anything.

I'm here to see how the aid schemes are
progressing and to make recommendations.

Do you think farming projects
have eradicated poppy growing?

I'm a businessman,
I can't claim to know that.

- Will we see one of these new farms?
- Of course. We'll take my car.

What are they making?

The sugar cane produces a syrup called gura
which is sold at local markets.

For every five acres
that used to be poppies,

the farmers now have to grow twenty acres
of sugar cane to earn the same revenue.

We will buy your wheat and sugar cane crops
at subsidised rates.

To help you.

(Translates into Pashto)

If you want to help us,

buy our poppy crops,
then you can do what you want.

You can destroy them if you want to.

I can't feed my family!

There is more aid money coming
from America and Britain.

The money never reaches us.
It goes on European experts and advisers.

Time is running out for you.
Time is running out.

Growing poppy is illegal!

And you are breaking the law.

I'm sorry, Mr Lithgow,
I have to get back.

I hope you've seen
everything you wanted to.

Thanks for your time.
I hope we meet again.

I hope so.

- Goodbye, Mr Waheed.
- Bye-bye. Thank you.

You see, if I were to grow opium, how
would I make contact with the traffickers?

These drug barons,
they've got agents everywhere.

They come round
on their mopeds with the seeds.

They actually give the
farmers poppy seeds and say

"Grow them and we'll give you �200."

Half on the spot, half on delivery.

- You are the man from Britain?
- Yes.

Come to my village, it's not like this.

- He is a troublemaker, come on.
- No, no, please.

- You must come to my village.
- W-what do you want?

Sugar doesn't make enough money
to pay off my debts.

I'm here to approve new grants
to help people like you.

Grants? We're always promised grants!

We want to help you improve your life
with new crops, new roads, new schools.

Look around you.
Where are the schools and hospitals?

Schools will come when you do as we say
and stop growing poppy.

Schools are a right,
they're not to be bargained for.

And the roads aren't finished.
This water doesn't reach my fields.

- Read it. Please read it.
- Please, it's all right, I'd like to.

You are aware that heroin
causes many deaths in the West?

I grow opium, not heroin.

You create the heroin problem.

Well, thank you for your thoughts.

I'll certainly read your letter.
I must get back.

- Band karo isko!
- Isko bolo mere ghar zarur aaye.

Please tell him I will consider his letter
very carefully. Thank you.

- I'm very sorry about that.
- No, not at all.

Why can't they grow enough crops?

They just won't use the right fertilisers.

At planting time they think "We're short
on money, we'll buy cheap fertiliser."

Then they complain when the crop is short.

They're always complaining.

Come on, quick. Daddy's plane's here.

Daddy! Daddy!

(Helen) Argh!

- What are you doing?!
- Daddy!

Karl!

Where are they taking Daddy?

Karl! Where are you taking him?!

- Call Domenquez!
- Domenquez?

Call Domenquez!

Who are those men? Where are they going?

(Siren)

In the car! Quick!

Come on!

Mummy! Wait for me! Wait!

Helen Rosshalde. Geben Sie mir Enrico.
Machen Sie schon, das ist ein Notfall!

Enrico? Look, there's trouble.
Karl's been arrested.

I'm trying to find out
where they're taking him.

As soon as I find out,
I want you down there. Get him out on bail.

Phone my home.
Have Lisa stand by to collect the children.

It seems to me that more heroin is being
produced in this region, Mr Waheed.

More is being produced
but then, we are recovering more, too.

We are certainly on top of it.

How much is here?

I can't say exactly.
I guess a thousand kilos.

A thousand?!
Must be worth millions of pounds.

It wouldn't last the
addicts of London a year.

Sir, let me introduce Mr Javed Ahmed,
Governor of the North-West Province.

- Pleased to meet you, Mr Ahmed.
- Pleasure.

- Forgive me for having kept you waiting.
- Not at all. I was admiring the view.

I see you've laid the weather on
so that I feel at home!

- Please.
- Thank you.

Do you play?

Yeah, I used to play a lot.
Yes, this is a beautiful set.

You don't seem to be out of the papers
these days, Mr Lithgow.

Everyone talks about you
as a future prime minister.

There hasn't been a
Scottish prime minister

since MacDonald.
I wouldn't hold your breath!

(Chuckles)

Anyway, during your brief visit
I hope you've seen everything you need

in order to advise your government.

I'm a little bit worried about recommending
an expansion in the aid programme

when farmers are struggling
to meet minimum crop-production targets.

Pakistan is a desperately poor country,
and the West asks a lot from us.

Remember, we have a major problem
ourselves with heroin addiction.

We're just as concerned as you are
to find a solution.

There's also been allegations

that as much as 25% of the aid money
is lost before it gets to the farmers.

Mr Lithgow, you and I are realists.

There will always be temptations
when the profits are to be made from drugs.

Most of the problems
have been overcome early.

I am very optimistic for the future.

Sorry to interrupt. I am to tell you
the guests will be arriving soon.

This is Roomana, my daughter. Mr Lithgow.

She's a lawyer in Karachi.

She's also an agitator
so don't listen to a word she says.

Ja.

So, have you been given the sanitised tour,
Mr Lithgow?

It's my first visit so I wouldn't know,
but everyone has been very helpful.

You see the man by the window?

His name is Tariq Butt.

He thinks himself a very pious,
religious man.

He owns the biggest transportation company
in Pakistan.

He is also a major drug trafficker.

That is pure speculation.

I told you about her, Jack.

I'm compiling evidence against him
but nobody cares.

How is he here? Why isn't he arrested?

He's too well connected.
His money buys him immunity.

People we arrest
are too frightened to speak about him.

She sees conspiracy everywhere.

Jack, let me tear you away
from my opinionated daughter

and introduce you to the head
of Pakistan Narcotics Control Board.

(Hums)

Helen, I want you to go home
and reassure the children.

- I have to stay here.
- Go home. I'll phone if there's any news.

I've got the bail application
and contacts at the police department.

I have the best people working on this.
Go home and I'll keep you posted.

Please.

Be strong.

Werner?

I'm sorry. What news, Frau Rosshalde?
What can we do to help?

Nothing yet.

- Can I get you something to eat or coffee?
- No. Just, erm...

Just assemble the staff in the library.

Bitte setzen Sie sich.

I'm sure you're anxious to know
what's going on. I'll tell you what I know.

Sicher werden Sie beunruhigt sein �ber das,
was hier vorgeht.

Ich m�chte Ihnen sagen, was ich wei�.

My husband is in custody and a man is
trying to frame him with smuggling charges.

Mein Mann ist in Untersuchungshaft.

Ein Mann versucht ihn,
der Schmuggelei zu bezichtigen.

You will hear many rumours about us.
You may even be approached by reporters.

Sie werden Ger�chte
�ber uns h�ren,

vielleicht werden Reporter
an Sie herantreten.

If it goes to trial,
this may continue for several months.

These are going to be bad times for us all.

Sollte es zum Prozess kommen,
wird das einige Monate anhalten.

Das werden schwere Zeiten
f�r uns alle werden.

- We have cancelled the birthday party.
- No, I want the party to go ahead.

My husband is innocent.

I don't intend to hide away
as though we've done anything wrong.

Think of an iceberg,

with Karl Rosshalde as the tip.

He was the legitimate above-the-water bit.

But below him there was this enormous
illegal empire which he was funding.

- Did Rosshalde finance every shipment?
- No, I think he had a group of investors.

- Who were they?
- I don't know.

I know a Swiss-German bank was involved
because he used to boast about it.

What I want to know is,

are we dealing with a corrupted businessman
or a gangster who has gone legitimate?

Who gives a shit?

(Shouting in German)

(Car horn)

Hi.

Tell me.

They're charging him
with trafficking heroin.

Oh, no!

(Whispers) No, no, no!

I think you're being very brave.

I feel like I should be doing something.

Pray for Karl's safe return to us.
That's all any of us can do.

Don't talk down to me!

I know he's been involved
in something illegal. I'm not stupid.

I know he's been smuggling.

We've been really careful up to now,
paid the right people and kept a low profile.

Karl's never done anything that directly
connects him with a drugs deal.

So... where does this Frenchman, Ledesert,
fit in?

He ran ships from Pakistan to India.

Started working for us a
couple of years ago.

But...
I think he was trying to deal on the side.

Oh, Jesus, this is such a mess.

Karl put all the money
into this one big shipment.

We've lost seventy kilos.
He owes everybody.

How much does Ledesert know?

Everything.

Look...

if Karl's convicted,
all his assets will be seized.

You'll lose the house,
the cars, everything.

You've got to try and sell as many things
as you can in the next few months.

Transfer money into
accounts they can't trace

and maybe you can
hang on to some of it if...

- ...if the worst happens.
- That just tells the world he's guilty.

Don't make any decisions now.

Why don't you come downstairs
and have a drink with me? Come on.

I'll join you in a minute.

Can you turn the lights off?

Sure.

I'm going to be strong about this.

I'm not going to let go
of everything we've fought for.

- (Villagers chant)
- (Police captain shouts in Pashto)

(Captain shouts)

We don't want confrontation.

We have told our people
not to carry weapons today.

Last month you promised
that you won't use force against us.

We have orders.
The poppy crop must be destroyed.

Tell your people to clear the area.

This is our land.
We'll grow what we like on it.

- We won't be told what to do!
- (Shouting)

(Shouts in Pashto)

(Police captain shouts orders)

Dear sir,

The welfare of our people,
we are being neglected.

The Government
has cracked down on us farmers

because we are easiest way
to get rid of heroin problem.

But the aid is not enough
and not spread fair.

We are very poor and deserving also.