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Fyodor BondarchukForgatókönyvíró:
Jurij KorotkovOperatőr:
Maksim Osadchiy-KorytkovskiyZeneszerző:
Dato EvgenidzeSzereplők:
Artur Smolyaninov, Fyodor Bondarchuk, Aleksey Kravchenko, Aleksey Chadov, Амаду Мамадаков, Aleksey Serebryakov, Mikhail Porechenkov, Mikhail Efremov (több)Tartalmak(1)
Based on real-life events, 9th COMPANY recounts a year in the shared lives of a group of young soldiers drafted to serve in Afghanistan during the final year of the Soviet conflict. It is a poignant story of the unit s dedication to each other during their valiant defense of Height 3234...a futile battle that ravaged their forgotten company, who fought on, unaware that the war had ended. (forgalmazó hivatalos szövege)
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Formally, ALMOST like an American production (sometimes the few million less in the budget can be seen in the visual), but in terms of content it is on the level of American mainstream production, but in places it is unfortunately not. A few places in the film seemed unnecessarily tense to me, as if they didn't at all fit into the set framework of a realistic drama from Afghanistan. Mainly the final attempt at a monologue in the style of Platoon is very shabby. Similarly, the training episodes, which Bondarchuk tries to wrap in an interesting visual concept, sway here and there on the verge of kitsch. Then there are sheer revelations such as the "worship of Snow White", a scene full of ideas, spontaneity and emotions. The actors are excellent, and thanks to their performances, we quickly get used to the band of Soviet brats from all corners of Mother Russia, and thus we get beneath the surface. 9th Company is sometimes unnecessarily balky and awkwardly tries to create drama... fortunately, for the most part, it is dramatic in its nature.
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A war movie of the “hard on the assault course, even harder on the battlefield" kind... In technical terms the picture was pretty decent, but it is brought down heavily in the first half by the military training. This is like a low-quality version of the first episode of Band of Brothers “enriched" with incredibly lame moments (for instance the crying officer in the poppy field). Luckily, the second half is no longer so full of cliché and has several powerful moments. But it is a huge shame that the creators copied other, successful war movies, just setting the story in an environment of a conflict familiar for them, without adding anything of their own that we haven’t seen several times over elsewhere. I understand that it is aimed primarily at the home (ex-Soviet) audience (and let’s face it, we Czechs sorely lack a war movie intended only for us), but a little objectivity wouldn’t have hurt.
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The Soviet film school essentially produced war films on an assembly line, but 9th Company follows more so the style and content of American war films from the 1980s. In other words, it is a combination of Full Metal Jacket and Platoon, which is also mimicked in the film's title. It is not a cheap imitation, but rather a very solid piece of craftsmanship and, truth be told, one of the best war films of the last decade. Thanks to the large investments in Russian cinema in recent years and coproduction, it is not a financially deprived film either, so viewers can enjoy the military equipment, generously conceived shots of the military base, and large-scale battles. As for casting, acting performances, and directing, I have no significant objections, and for about 70% of the film I thought I was watching a five-star film that stood out for its exceptionally high level of authenticity. I had the opportunity to speak at length with an eyewitness of the Afghan war, who spent eight years in the war zone, and his narrative aligned with the atmosphere of the film. The attack on the transport plane or the ambush of a military convoy in the pass perfectly fits the way the war was fought at that time. The plane destruction scene is also visually impressive. However, the final grand battle comes, which, from the perspective of a popular culture viewer, is again gratifyingly filmed and directed, but it is unrealistic and reminded me of heroic images from the Soviet era, like "the last heroic defenders of Sevastopol resist the fascist superiority." Ultimately, the closing credits depict the nature of this conflict far more soberly when it comes to the number of casualties. Similar open battles were exceptional in the Afghan war because they demonstrated better tactical preparedness and greater firepower of the Soviet army. It is similar, after all, in present-day Iraq. Otherwise, it is interesting to compare this Russian film precisely with American films about the Vietnam War. American films - even those with an anti-war orientation - depict their soldiers as winners, and if an American soldier falls, he must almost inevitably shoot at least ten Vietnamese soldiers before he dies. Russian soldiers die like flies. Bullets find them much more often than they do the Afghan rebels. The primary goal of 9th Company is to portray Russian soldiers as men who are not afraid to die but fulfill their mission and at the same time show that this war was not theirs. Their deployment was decided by the elders of the Central Committee of the CPSU. Today's Russia is not so much following the era of the Soviet Union as it is emphasizing pre-revolutionary Russia and particularly highlighting service to the country and self-sacrifice. At the same time, there is not a single scene in the film where an Afghan civilian clearly dies. The goal of the film is not self-flagellation like in American production; Russian soldiers, after all, fulfill the tasks assigned to them....Overall impression: 80%.
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A sweeping Russian war film. Too sweeping. And it looks too American to be Russian. Yes, at times it's very big and almost admirable, but at other times it's terribly theatrical, awkward and boring. And I had trouble distinguishing the main characters, which always bothers me. The Czech film Tobruk turned out much, much better.
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