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Gogi113
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 Posted: Sat, 3rd Feb 2007 23:57 Post subject: The 9th Company |
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I wonder if someone have ever heard about that movie here  As i know, that film must be shown in England on the 16th of February. Here's some description:
| Quote: | The 9th Company (Russian: «9 рота») is a Russian / Finnish film by Fyodor Bondarchuk about the Soviet war in Afghanistan released in 2005. The film follows a band of young recruits from a farewell ceremony with friends and family back home, through their often brutal training in Uzbekistan's Fergana Valley, up to a bloody battle on a mountain top in Afghanistan against the mujahideen.
The film is based on events which took place in early 1988 during the last large-scale Soviet military operation "Magistral". In the movie, only one soldier from the company survives and the company is said to have been "forgotten" by the military command because of the Soviet withdrawal.
During the actual event, the 9th Company, 345th Guards Airborne Regiment was pinned down under heavy fire on "Hill 3234" between 7 and 8 January 1988. They managed to stop several attacks by an estimated 200-400 mujahideen and Pakistani mercenaries. The company lost 6 men. Another 28 out of the total 39 were wounded. Two of the killed soldiers were posthomously awarded the golden star of the Hero of the Soviet Union. The unit was in constant communication with headquarters and got everything the regimental commander, Colonel Valery Vostrotin, and 40th Army Commander, General Boris Gromov, had to offer in terms of artillery support.
The film received a mixed reaction from the veterans of that war, who pointed to a number of inaccuracies, but nevertheless, judging by ticket sales, was embraced by the general public, and even by Russian President Vladimir Putin. It was also given the Golden Eagle Award for the Best Feature Film by the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts.
It was directed by Fyodor Bondarchuk, the son of classic Soviet film director Sergei Bondarchuk, whose 1959 Destiny of a Man was a landmark in film treatments of World War II and who also shot an Oscar-winning epic, based on Leo Tolstoy’s novel War and Peace.
Although not the first movie to be made about the Soviet Army's experience in Afghanistan (others included the 1991 classic Afghan Breakdown by Vladimir Bortko), 9th Company was the first attempt by Russian filmmakers to create a big-screen, big-budget movie about that war, comparable to the American Vietnam War movies of the 1980s (Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Born on the Fourth of July). The film, made for $9 million with help from the United Kingdom's Shepperton Studios, was released in September, 2005 and became a Russian box office hit, generating $7.7 million in its first five days of release alone, a new domestic record. |
Well, as to me it's a pride of Russian cinematography! 
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I saw that movie, and it's excellent. Certainly with par with Hollywood movies.
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Man Im gonna grab that one!
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I doubt it's gonna be better than Rambo3.
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This movie is great! One of the best warmovies I've seen. Highly recommended.
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Gogi113
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| Posted: Sun, 4th Feb 2007 23:35 Post subject: |
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| mark322 wrote: | | I doubt it's gonna be better than Rambo3. |
| KnightRider2006 wrote: | | Surely though it can't beat Commando! |
I think this films are little different in genres, Rambo & Commando are action movies, and The 9th Company is a drama, the main idea is not an action. To my mind - there are a lot of good jokes and vital situations.
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you ignorant fool, This will be a russian black hawk down and quess what both wars was quite useless 
