Movie: 9th Company (2005)

• Director: Fyodor Bondarchuk
• Release Date: 29 September 2005 (Russia)
• Run Time: 139 min
• Country: Finland , Russia , Ukraine
• Genre: Action , Drama , History , War  
• MPAA: Rated R for sequences of strong bloody warfare, pervasive language, some sexuality/nudity and drug use.

Tagline: They stood together while their country fell apart  

Trivia: Set domestic box office record in Russia, in 2005, generating $ 7,700,000 in five days. Surpassed Turetskiy gambit (2005) in October 2005 to become the highest-grossing movie in post-communist Russia. 

“The film is based on a true story of the 9th company during the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan in the 1980′s. Young Soviet Army recruits are sent from a boot camp into the middle of the war in Afghanistan. The action is not like a boot camp at all. It is very bloody and dirty. The 9th company is defending the hill 3234. They are hopelessly calling for help. Written by Steve Shelokhonov”