该片是由拉希德·努格马诺夫执导的剧情片,于1988年上映，主要讲述了:In the bleak film.scape of glasnost, The N.eedle stood out as a .black sheep of a movie. The. most playfu.l and offbea.t of the Sov.iet films of the period, it. co.ntrasted sha.rply to t.he mainst.ream, which was overw.helmed with .revisionism of the Stali.nist past and nihilistic so.cial c.riticism. Made in 1988 b.y a young Kazakh directo.r, Rashid Nugmanov, fres.h out of VGIK (the na.tional film school), The Ne.edle was a p.ioneering ef.fort in seve.ral ways. Having come from .a r.emote, stagn.ant repub.lic of Ka.zakhstan, the picture. set off a m.ovement that has come to. be known as the "Kaza.kh New. Wave." Represented. by such works as Alexan.der Baranov's and Ba.khyt Kilibayev's .The Three (1988) and Woman .of the Day (.1990); Kilib.ayev's T.he Tick (1990); Baranov'.;s .He and She (.1990); Ab.ai Karpyk.ov's Little Fish .in Love (198.9); and Serik Aprymov.9;s The Last Stop (1989), t.he Kaz.akh New Wave was for the. agonizing Soviet film o.f the late 1980s what th.e French New Wave was. for the dusty French film .of the late .1950s. The N.eedle was th.e movement's a bout de .sou.ffle. The fi.lm also b.ecame a m.odel for the Russian .version of p.ostmodernism—uninhibited. and uninformed, compensati.ng for. the lack of culture, sk.ill, and resources with .mischief and wit. A youn.g man named Moro (pla.yed by Viktor Tsoi, the lat.e rock '.n' roll .legend from .the St. Petersburg band &qu.ot;.Kino") .returns t.o his Asi.atic hometown only to. find his ex.girlfriend, Dina (Marina. Smirnova), becoming a drug. addic.t and himself becoming i.nvolved in the bizarre l.ife of the city's un.derworld. In an attem.pt to save Dina, Moro takes. her away to. the Aral Se.a, turned in.to a barren desert by the t.ime. they arrive.. There D.ina seems. cured, but back in t.own everythi.ng starts anew. Almost d.esperate, Moro decides to f.ight t.he drug dealers, led by .a hospital doctor (playe.d by another rock 'n.' roll star, ecce.ntric leader of the "S.ound of Mu&q.uot; band an.d the future. star of Taxi Blues, Pyotr .Mam.onov), when .one of th.em stabs .him in a deserted par.k.