Monday 4 June 2007

9th Company (2005) - ickleReview (DVD)

A rare Russian war film about the last years of the 1979-89 Afghan war, following a group of young volunteer soldiers through basic training and deployment to the frontline. Their mission is to protect the Soviet supply lines in the mountains.

Nugget: an accomplished, if at times juvenile film, offering an intriguing foil to Hollywood's Vietnam epics, the equivalent American proxy conquest of the Cold War era.

Read the full review on FilmExposed.

[Update: Friday 17 June 2011: looks like FilmExposed is no more, so that link is broken.]