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9th Company, The Back to Index

poster Imdb Rating: 7.4
Genre: War
Directed: Yuri Korotkov
Country: Finland
Year: 2005
Duration: 130 min

Media: Hot stuff


Actors: Fyodor Bondarchuk (as Khohol), Aleksei Chadov (as Vorobey), Mikhail Evlanov (as Ryaba), Ivan Kokorin (as Chugun), Artyom Mikhalkov (as Stas), Konstantin Kryukov (as Dzhakonda), Artur Smolyaninov (as Lyutiy), Mikhail Porechenkov (as Praporshik Dygalo), Irina Rakhmanova (as Belosnezhka), Aleksei Serebryakov (as Kapitan), Mikhail Yefremov (as Dembel), Aleksei Kravchenko (as Kapitan Bystrov), Andrei Krasko (as Kompolka v Afgane), Stanislav Govorukhin (as Kompolka v Uchebke), Aleksandr Bashirov (as Pomidor)

Description: "They stood together while their country fell apart"

Young Soviet Army recruits are stuck in the bloody war in Afghanistan, that was started by politicians.

Comment: The poster of this movie is not the most attractive, unfortunately, but everything else that's beyond that, exceeds the expectations to a Russian movie.

"9th company is a film about war cruelty, inhuman cross crippling the heroes' lives, about honour and duty, sufferings and friendship, about life that is one for all and death that is different for everyone."

9th company truly shows the beauty, the reality and the uselessness of such wars against locals. Now, 20 years after, the equipment has developed, all in all, it still gives an impression of the actions against the Iraq.

The characters were colorful and well picked, although some of them still looked too similar to me for messing them up.

The movie is high quality, with well mastered sound and Russian spirit in it, but vastly dramatic and definitely not a typical American movie with a happy end. It is a great example of human values and motivates to think about "What matters most".

IMDB TRIVIA FOR 9-YA ROTA (2005):
- Before shooting the film young artists met veterans of the Afghan War - the soldiers of legendary 9-oy company. Some were introduced to the prototypes of their characters.
- Surpassed Turetskii gambit (2005) in October 2005 to become the highest-grossing movie in post-communist Russia.
- It is the first movie in post-communist Russia to surpass the $20 million mark at the box office.
- In reality, only 6 of 39 soviet soldiers from 9th company were killed on 3234 hill. There were over 200 dead on the opposite side.
- Presidents of Ukraine and Uzbekistan extended their patronage over the production of the film.
- 2,000 extras were used in battle scenes.

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