Cigarette Soup (2017)

Director
Damian Voerg

Main cast
Tobias Truvillion; Joe Perrino; Dina Shihabi; Samantha Soule; Quincy Dunn-Baker

Genres
Action

Description
Afghanistan 2006 - A young aspiring journalist gets the opportunity of a lifetime when he is embedded with a small band of American soldiers.


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