• Director: Fedor Bondarchuk
  • Release Year: 2005
  • Production Country: Finland, Russia, Ukraine
  • Language: Russian
  • Run Time: 139 minutes

9 Rota (9th Company)

Description

A group of young soldiers attend bootcamp in a foreign but friendly valley in Uzbekistan, but the most important lesson they learn in getting ready for their tour of duty in Afghanistan may be the tragic fate of the soldiers who they replaced. Trapped in a brutal firefight against a much larger force of local mujahideen, the young men had to rely on their own wits and courage to save them when their pleas for aid went unheeded by their commanders.

Themes

Soviet war in Afghanistan (1979 – 1989), Soviet Union (U.S.S.R. 1921 – 1991), Guerilla warfare, Islam, Casualties of war, Cold War, Military sociology, Public memory, Social history