The 9th Company
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"9th Company" redirects here. For the battle on which the film is based on, see Battle for Hill 3234.
The 9th Company (Russian: 9 рота, romanized: 9 rota) is a 2005 Russian war film directed by Fedor Bondarchuk and set during the Soviet–Afghan War. The film is loosely based on a real-life battle that took place at Hill 3234 in early 1988, during Operation Magistral, the last large-scale Soviet military operation in Afghanistan. It received generally positive reviews from critics.
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Russian | 9 рота |
Directed by | Fyodor Bondarchuk |
Written by | Yuri Korotkov |
Produced by | Fyodor Bondarchuk Iskander Galiev Alexander Rodnyansky Yelena Yatsura Salim Abduvaliev |
Starring | Fyodor Bondarchuk Aleksei Chadov Mikhail Evlanov |
Cinematography | Maksim Osadchy |
Edited by | Igor Litoninsky |
Music by | Dato Evgenidze |
Distributed by | Art Pictures Group Warner Bros. Pictures |
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Running time | 130 minutes |
Countries | Russia Ukraine Finland |
Language | Russian |
Budget | $9.5 million[citation needed] |
Box office | $26.1 million[2] |
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The film was selected as the Russian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 79th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.