![]() ![]() The wonderfully pc-free Russian script and scenes - no woke here, than goodness, and no constant preaching about pc issues re race and gender as in most Hollywood moves and British TV drama - it is really very refreshing. Good things about it: the superb and honestly violent and realistically gruesome action/war footage, real edge of seat stuff, some of the best I have ever seen (also in the 2005 film WAR about Chechnya war). Of course many get injured or killed and more get mentally scarred by that hellish civil war.īad things about this film: I dislike the speeded up or slowed down scenes common in Russian and also east Asian films and we have that here overdone overacting very OTT really a bit overlong and portentous sadly no English subtitles for the credits. It shows ordinary Russians, from Siberia etc, leaving ordinary lives to go to an unwinnable war in Afghanistan (1979-1989). This 2005 was the most successful post-communist film in Russia up to then, and you can see why. Actors: Artur Smolyaninov, Aleksey Chadov, Konstantin Kryukov, Ivan Kokorin, Mikhail Evlanov, Artyom Mikhalkov, Soslan Fidarov, Ivan Nikolaev, Mikhail Porechenkov, Fedor Bondarchuk, Dmitriy Mukhamadeev, Irina Rakhmanova, Amadu Mamadakov, Aleksandr Sheyn, Aleksey Kravchenko, Aleksandr Bashirov, Mikhail Efremov, Stanislav Govorukhin, Andrey Krasko, Aleksandr Lykov Directors: Fedor Bondarchuk Writers: Iskander Galiev, Yuriy Korotkov Aka: 9 rota Studio: Contender Genres: Action & Adventure, Drama Countries: Russia Based on real events, the film follows the ill-fated fortunes of a small group of young Russian soldiers, from the trials of boot camp to their arrival in the heart of the war zone and the climactic, bloody battle that made them all heroes. ![]() In 1988, a band of 39 Soviet soldiers held "Hill 3234" against 400 Afghan rebels in a remarkable chapter in military history. ![]() Post-communist Russia's highest grossing film to date, 9th Company is a stirring and extremely timely modern day war movie on a par with Hollywood blockbusters 'Full Metal Jacket' and 'Platoon'. ![]()
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