Art Pictures | 9th company

9th company

Year

2005
Country

Russia
Genre

war drama
Film rating

16+
Box office in Russia

$25 555 809
Tagline

"They want to be loved"
Synopsis

The USSR, late 1980s. After several months of bootcamp, seven young recruits to the Soviet army are thrown into the slaughterhouse of the Afghan campaign. The troops receive an order from headquarters: seize an area and hold it at all costs, allowing a military convoy to pass through. Vastly outmatched, the reinforcements never arrive, and the valiant members of the 9th Company fall. Their leader is the sole survivor. Later he will find out that the war is over, and that their commanders simply forgot about the stranded group of soldiers, fighting for their life with their last strength…

Director

Fedor Bondarchuk
Script

Yuriy Korotkov
Cameraman

Maxim Osadchiy
Producers

Alexander Rodnyanskiy, Elena Yatsura, Dmitriy Rudovskiy, Fedor Bondarchuk
Composer

Dato Evgenidze
Art director

Gregory Pushkin, Ekaterina Zaletaeva