Product Details

• Actors: Fyodor Bondarchuk, Mikhail Evlanov, Aleksei Chadov, Ivan Kokorin, Artyom Mikhalkov
• Directors: Fyodor Bondarchuk
• Format: NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen, Import, Color
• Subtitles: English, Russian
• Region: Region 2 (Read more about DVD formats.)
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1.0
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: VOX - Video
• Run Time: 130 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000FEY02U
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #52,086 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

ENGLISH subtitled, Russia released, ALL region, Anamorphic Widescreen. SPOKEN LANGUAGE: RUSSIAN Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS; SUBTITLES: ENGLISH, RUSSIAN; SYNOPSIS: 9th Company is a Russian / Finnish film 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, 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, where as in reality the 9th company was in constant contact with HQ, was backed by artillery fire and lost only a handful of men. 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.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely awesome!, March 20, 2007

By	C. Ciccarelli - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've been waiting to see this movie with english subtitles for over a year now (having heard how good it was). If you are a big fan of movies like "Platoon" and Full Metal Jacket", then you'll love "9th Company". This film gives you a look into both the Russian military lifestyle and their service in Afghanistan. The movie is very realistic; what one would expect from any modernday hollywood producer (unlike "Prisoner of the Mountains" with their cheap '70s quality war scenes). I give this film a definate 5 stars and would rate it as one of the best foreign war movies ever made.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 9th Company, August 12, 2006

By	Robert Greene (Palo Alto, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This DVD (subtitled in English and with a handy paper inclusion that tells how to get to the English subtitles through the Russian root menu) tells the story of the Russian Army 9th Company in the final days of the Afghanistan conflict. It's tough, it's gritty, at times it is beautiful (the rugged Afghan mountains are glorious), often it is hard, as the Russian Army was hard. At the end, no soft Hollywood ending will lead you away from the realities of a difficult war that makes one think of the similarities of the conflicts today, when so often our militaries find themselves in the countries of others, where the line between civilians and the enemy is so thin...

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Movie, February 3, 2009

By	Patrick W. Forys "Pfmann" (Phoenix, Arizona United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Well done,great acting. What really struck me was the technical accuracy of the weapons and equipment used. This is a keeper. Better than most crap hollywierd puts out these days.