Product Details

• Actors: Michele Placido, Aleksei Serebryakov, Tatyana Dogileva, Mikhail Zhigalov, Filipp Yankovsky
• Directors: Vladimir Bortko
• Format: PAL, Full Screen, Color, Import
• Subtitles: Czech
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: G (General Audience)
• Studio: Ritka Video
• Run Time: 140 minutes
• ASIN: B000GSO6AQ
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #509,126 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

NO ENGLISH SUBTITLES and AUDIO!!! Czech released, PAL/Region Free DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. AUDIO TRACKS: CZECH (dubbed), RUSSIAN; SUBTITLES: CZECH; FULL SCREEN, SYNOPSIS: For almost a decade, the U.S.S.R. was involved in a long and apparently pointless war in Afghanistan, which began with an effort to keep a communist puppet government in power and ended with the huge Russian war machine slinking out of the primitive country in disgrace. The war may have been the straw that broke the back of the so-called "evil empire," as it began disbanding shortly afterwards. This Italian/U.S.S.R. co-production follows what happens to one officer and his disheartened soldiers, as they try to make it possible for their countrymen to retreat from the unforgiving country at the end of the conflict. The movie is still regarded by most veterans as the best account of the war, despite new box-office hits coming out like "The 9th Company".