Based on 'True Events', this one is about the Russians in Afghanistan, back in the late 80's. Should be interesting!
Movie Theater 9th Company
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I watched it a few weeks back. Other than the sub titles I thought it was interesting. It was worth watching.
not a bad flick saw it before I went to Kazakhstan last year. then went to the kazak Afghanistan war memorial in Almaty pretty neat part of the world.
Great movie - retrospective movies help reveal how the director felt about a subject. In this case, the invincible force goes in and gets it's A$$ handed to it by the rag tag band of Mujahideen (occasionally equipped with AA missiles). Love that seen where the outgoing soldier gives up his talisman on the flight line, to our "lone survivor." but, then tragically the outbound plane gets shot down right in front of our arriving replacements for the 9th Rota. It is one of those moments when all the fresh meat realize they are not in Kansas or maybe I shoould say Moscow, anymore. The bar is set high from here on out, the mood of hopelessness is hinted at, and our recruits find themselves getting deeper and deeper into the crap. Especially interesting was the ethnic mix of soldiers which is an aspect that many Americans may not fully appreciate. Oh, and the blond at the beginning of the movie wasn't bad either.
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Good film,
BUT IT ONLY FILM.
In the film beginning it is specified that the film is based on real events.
Really there was only a fight for mountain 3234.
In real life from 39 soldiers was lost 6. Them protected guns and aircraft.
US Army analysis of the real story:
Battle for Hill 3234: 9th Company of the 3rd Battalion, 345th Airborne Regiment
http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/documents/battle-for-the-hill.pdf
Battle for Hill 3234
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The Truth About 9th Company
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BUT IT ONLY FILM.
In the film beginning it is specified that the film is based on real events.
Really there was only a fight for mountain 3234.
In real life from 39 soldiers was lost 6. Them protected guns and aircraft.
US Army analysis of the real story:
Battle for Hill 3234: 9th Company of the 3rd Battalion, 345th Airborne Regiment
http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/documents/battle-for-the-hill.pdf
Battle for Hill 3234
Battle for Hill 3234 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Truth About 9th Company
The Truth About 9th Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Good movie. You can tell the director watched every cliche US war movie and honored them in this film 
The movie never overtly mentions the Paki SSG involvement, but the muj dude with the pakifro and sunglasses is an obvious reference.
The movie never overtly mentions the Paki SSG involvement, but the muj dude with the pakifro and sunglasses is an obvious reference.
I have both, and like both (but then I collect Russian Cold War weapons).
The Beast dealth with basically just a single tank, while Rota 9 was an entire company, but you still learn quite a bit about the characters.
The Beast is what made me want to get a jezail rifle when I was in Afghanistan.
My main Russian surplus guy in Afghanistan had a quite a few of the prop stuff from Rota 9. His cousin was the prop master and used actual abandoned Soviet equipment for the movie.
Pretty good, I thought. One thing I really liked was how they hated their drill instructor because he made them train harder than the rest of the platoons (or whatever they were). But once they got to Afghanistan, when the veterans are explaining the differences between what they were trained to do and what they should actually do, the veterans' advice is identical to what the old DI had taught them.
You hate being yelled at and being forced to do difficult things, but then one day you realize how beneficial it was. . .
You hate being yelled at and being forced to do difficult things, but then one day you realize how beneficial it was. . .
