Key Details

Release StatusReleased

Release Date1996-08-30

Languageda

Runtime1h 50m

Budget$965,000

Production

Balboa Entertainment

7.0(920)

•1996•1h 50m

Pusher

"You don't have a chance. Seize it!"

Action Crime Drama

Overview

A drug pusher grows increasingly desperate after a botched deal leaves him with a large debt to a ruthless drug lord.

Director

Nicolas Winding Refn

Writing & Screenplay

Nicolas Winding Refn Jens Dahl

Cinematography

Morten Søborg

Principal Cast

37 credited

Slavko LabovićRadovan

Peter AnderssonHasse

Vanja BajicicBranko

Lisbeth RasmussenRita

Levino JensenMike

Nicolas Winding RefnBrian

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