Die neunte Kompanie
(2005)
Regisseur:
Fyodor BondarchukSchauspieler:
Aleksey Chadov, Konstantin Kryukov, Ivan Kokorin, Artyom Mikhalkov, Soslan Fidarov, Ivan Nikolaev, Михаил Пореченков, Amadu Mamadakov, Marat Gudiev, Aleksandr Bashirov, Andrey Krasko, Fyodor Bondarchuk, Artur Smolyaninov, Irina Rakhmanova, Mikhail EvlanovIn den späten 80er Jahren steht das schmachvolle Ende des sowjetischen Afghanistanabenteuers kurz bevor, doch viele junge Rekruten wie den gewitzten Stas, den hartgesottenen Lutayev oder den kunstsinnigen Gioconda wird man noch zu verheizen versuchen, wenn der vom Krieg gezeichnete, mit Wodka durchtränkte Ausbilder Dygalo und die Kasernenmatratze Snow White erst mal richtige Männer aus ihnen gemacht haben. Dann geht es über Usbekistan auf in den Kampf, der auch prompt nicht lange auf sich warten lässt.
Westliche Kriegsfilmklassiker wie "Full Metal Jacket" und "Platoon" hinterlassen ihre Spuren im angeblich größten Kassenerfolg der russischen Kinojahres 2005, doch von der kritischen Haltung solcher Vorbilder ist diese pathosgeschwängerte Ode an die Tapferkeit der Afghanistanveteranen weit entfernt.
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.
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.