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Product Description Based on real-life events, 9th COMPANY recounts a year in the shared lives of a group of young soldiers drafted to serve in Afghanistan during the final year of the Soviet conflict. It is a poignant story of the unit's dedication to both their country and each other during their valiant defense of Height 3234...a futile battle that ravaged their forgotten company, who fought on, unaware that the war had ended. Review 9th COMPANY, Russia s domestic top-grosser of 2005, has been touted as the first major film to attempt to do for their Afghan war what Platoon and other pics did for Vietnam. --Variety

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Sent to repair a burst pipe at a run-down housing community, plumber’s assistant and college student Dima notices a crack in a wall that indicates major structural damage to the building. With imminent collapse looming and the lives of 800 residents hanging in the balance, Dima becomes an unlikely crusader when his attempts to alert the proper authorities are hampered by a corrupt political system. Artyom Bystrov, Natalya Surkova, Boris Nevzorov star in this compelling Russian drama. 121 min. In Russian with English subtitles.