9th Company [Collector's Edition]

MOVIE DESCRIPTION:

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. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi

DVD FEATURES:

• Region: 1
• Number of Discs: 2
• Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo
• Screen: Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
• Features:
  • Making The Movie
  • 20 Years Later
  • The Premiere

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Cast:

  
       Aleksei Chadov
       Artur Smolyaninov
       Konstantin Kryukov
       Ivan Kokorin
       Artem Mikhalkov
       Mikhail Porechenkov
       Fyodor Bondarchuk
       Mikhail Evlanov
       Irina Rakhmanova
       Alexander Bashirov

• Director:

  Fyodor Bondarchuk

• Producer:

  Alexander Rodnyansky, Yelena Yatsura, Sergey Melkumov

• Screenwriter:

  Yuri Korotkov

• Cinematographer:

  Maxim Osadchy

• Composer (Music Score):

  Dato Evgenidzé

• Musical Direction/Supervision:

  Andrei Feofanov

• Editor:

  Igor Litonisky

• Production Designer:

  Grigori Pushkin

• Art Director:

  Zhanna Pakhomova, Alexander Stroilo

• Costume Designer:

  Nadezhda Balandina, Maxim Pazilov

• Sound/Sound Designer:

  Kiril Vasilyenko

• Makeup:

  Dmitry Kirillov