9th Company (2005)
(9 rota)
Country: FIN/RUS/UKR
Technical: col/2.35:1 139m
Director: Fyodor Bondarchuk
Cast: Artur Smolyaninov, Aleksey Chadov, Konstantin Kryukov
Synopsis:
1988: a squad of raw recruits is trained for combat in Afghanistan, and is all but annihilated.
Review:
A Soviet Full Metal Jacket, complete with brutal drill sergeant and an enemy who does not play by the rules. Like the Korean film Brotherhood it is at once an old-fashioned genre entertainment, with dollops of sentiment and glossy cinematography aestheticising the bloodletting, and a more realistically downbeat treatment of the conflict than your average multiplex fodder: the soldiers all (bar one, perhaps) have that ungainly, lived in look that precludes stardom. All the same, this is no Come and See, and the shouting and beating of the first hour give way finally to a heroic 300-style stand on the heights while the rest of the army has already started pulling out.
(9 rota)
Country: FIN/RUS/UKR
Technical: col/2.35:1 139m
Director: Fyodor Bondarchuk
Cast: Artur Smolyaninov, Aleksey Chadov, Konstantin Kryukov
Synopsis:
1988: a squad of raw recruits is trained for combat in Afghanistan, and is all but annihilated.
Review:
A Soviet Full Metal Jacket, complete with brutal drill sergeant and an enemy who does not play by the rules. Like the Korean film Brotherhood it is at once an old-fashioned genre entertainment, with dollops of sentiment and glossy cinematography aestheticising the bloodletting, and a more realistically downbeat treatment of the conflict than your average multiplex fodder: the soldiers all (bar one, perhaps) have that ungainly, lived in look that precludes stardom. All the same, this is no Come and See, and the shouting and beating of the first hour give way finally to a heroic 300-style stand on the heights while the rest of the army has already started pulling out.
(9 rota)
Country: FIN/RUS/UKR
Technical: col/2.35:1 139m
Director: Fyodor Bondarchuk
Cast: Artur Smolyaninov, Aleksey Chadov, Konstantin Kryukov
Synopsis:
1988: a squad of raw recruits is trained for combat in Afghanistan, and is all but annihilated.
Review:
A Soviet Full Metal Jacket, complete with brutal drill sergeant and an enemy who does not play by the rules. Like the Korean film Brotherhood it is at once an old-fashioned genre entertainment, with dollops of sentiment and glossy cinematography aestheticising the bloodletting, and a more realistically downbeat treatment of the conflict than your average multiplex fodder: the soldiers all (bar one, perhaps) have that ungainly, lived in look that precludes stardom. All the same, this is no Come and See, and the shouting and beating of the first hour give way finally to a heroic 300-style stand on the heights while the rest of the army has already started pulling out.