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"They stood together while their country fell apart". The picture opens in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, in late 1988, when military trainees Petrovsky, Ryaba, Chugun, Stas, Pinochet, Lyutev and Vorobyev are whipped into shape at a training camp by the brutal, sadistic commander, Warrant Officer Dygalo - prior to being sent off to the front lines. After several one-by-one dalliances with the local whore, Snow White, and a cautionary lecture on the history, geography and culture of Afghanistan (which most of the men sleep through), the trainees head off to battle - first to the Bagram air base, then to the Afghani province of Khost to secure supply lines. But nothing can begin to prepare them for the brutal devastation into which they are plunged, or the relentless tide of slaughter that scatters thousands of Soviet victims in its wake.
Movie rating: 7.1 / 10 (21786)
Directed by: Fyodor Bondarchuk - Iskander Galiev - Yuriy Korotkov
Writer credits: Yuriy Korotkov - Iskander Galiev - Iskander Galiev
Cast: Artur Smolyaninov - Aleksey Chadov - Konstantin Kryukov - Ivan Kokorin - Mikhail Evlanov
AKA: 9 rota, 9th Legion, The 9th Company, 9 kompania