9th Company (Blu-Ray) (2006)

"...the movie's impressive young Russian cast cover themselves in glory with some truly top-notch turns.  Johnny Vaughan, Sun Online
"...an intelligent and well-made war film that hammers its point home with explosive force.  Sam Jordison, Film4

Editor's Note Fedor Bondarchuk, the son of noted Russian filmmaker Sergei Bondarchuk, debuts as a director with the harrowing and relentless military drama 9TH COMPANY, set between 1988 and 1989 at the tail end of the U.S.S.R. Afghani war (the Soviet equivalent of Vietnam). 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.

	Artem Mikhalkov
	Aleksei Chadov
	Ivan Kokorin
	Artur Smolyaninov
	Konstantin Kryukov
	Mikhail Evlanov - Co-Star
	Irina Rakhmanova - Co-Star
	Soslan Fidarov - Co-Star
	Dmitry Mukhamadeev - Co-Star
	Mikhail Efremov - Co-Star
	Amadu Mamadakov - Co-Star
	Yuri Korotkov - Screenwriter
	Dato Evgenidze - Composer
	Maxim Osadchy - Director of Photography
	Kiril Vasilyenko - Sound
	Dmitry Kirillov - Makeup
	Andrei Feofanov - Music Director
	Stanislav Govorukhin - Co-Star
	Alexei Kravchenko - Co-Star
	Fyodor Bondarchuk - Co-Star
	Alexey Serebryakov - Co-Star
	Alexander Bashirov - Co-Star
	Andrei Krasko - Co-Star
	Alexandr Lykov - Co-Star
	Mikhail Porechenkov - Co-Star
	Mikhail Vladimirov - Co-Star
	Fyodor Bondarchuk - Director

Premiere
"It's a very good-looking war film with lots of impressive locations and fairly intense action sequences." 08/31/2010