2005 · war · drama · action
9th Company
Directed by Fyodor Bondarchuk2h 19m2005
Russian army recruits complete training and take their posting in late 1980s Afghanistan, where the insurgents are slowly gaining the upper hand.
Our read: 9th Company (2005) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded war · drama · action entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme war / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
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