9th Company
The film opens in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, in late 1988, when military trainees Petrovsky, Ryaba, Chugun, Stas, Pinochet, Lyutev and Vorobyev are whipped into shape in a training camp by the brutal, savage commander,'' Warrant Officer Dygalo - ahead to being sent to the leading lines. After a few one-by-one dalliances with the local whore, snowwhite, and also a cautionary lecture in history, culture and geography of Afghanistan (that nearly all of the men sleep through), the trainees head to battle - original to the Bagram airbase, subsequently to the Afghani province of Khost to procure supply lines. But nothing can start to prepare them for the wave of slaughter that ignites tens of thousands of Soviet sufferers in its aftermath, or the brutal devastation to which they are plunged.
Released: 2005-09-19
Duration: 139
min