

9th Company
2005-09-19 · 139 min · ★ 6.6
Russian army recruits complete training and take their posting in late 1980s Afghanistan, where the insurgents are slowly gaining the upper hand.
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Production details
- Directors
- Fyodor Bondarchuk
- Production companies
- Channel 1+1, Finnish Film Foundation, MRP Matila Röhr Productions, Slovo, Telekanal STS, YLE, Art Pictures Studio
- Countries
- Finland, Russia, Ukraine
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- USD 9,500,000
- Revenue
- USD 24,000,000
Top Cast
Aleksey ChadovVorobey
Artur SmolyaninovLyutyy
Konstantin KryukovDzhokonda
Ivan KokorinChugun
Artyom MikhalkovStas
Soslan FidarovPinochet
Mikhail PorechenkovDygalo
Dmitriy MukhamadeevAfanasiy
Fyodor BondarchukKhokhol
Amadu MamadakovKurbashi
Mikhail EvlanovRyaba
Aleksandr BashirovPomidor
Ivan NikolaevSeryi
Irina RakhmanovaSnow White
Andrey KraskoColonel
Stanislav GovorukhinTraining Regiment Commander
Aleksei KravchenkoCaptain Bystrov
Aleksey Serebryakovcaptain
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