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Fyodor BondarchukDrehbuch:
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Dato EvgenidzeBesetzung:
Artur Smolyaninov, Fyodor Bondarchuk, Aleksey Kravchenko, Aleksey Chadov, Амаду Мамадаков, Aleksey Serebryakov, Mikhail Porechenkov, Mikhail Efremov (mehr)Inhalte(1)
Afghanistan 1989: Seit zehn Jahren tobt der Krieg. Der blutige Kampf ist für die Sowjetunion zum hoffnungslosen Desaster mit Tausenden Toten auf beiden Seiten geworden. Die Regierung will das Debakel beenden und ihre Truppen abziehen. Sie schickt eine Kompanie blutjunger Rekruten ins Feindesland. Sie sollen eine strategische Anhöhe gegen afghanische Mudschaheddin halten, um den Rückzug der eigenen Truppen zu sichern. Ein Todeskommando, denn die kampfunerfahrene Kompanie steht einer zwölffach überlegenen Macht gegenüber. (KinoweltTV)
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Formalen gesehen ist der Streifen FAST wie ein amerikanischer (manchmal merkt man dem Streifen das etliche Millionen schlankere Budget nämlich an. Einige Stellen im Film kamen mir unnötigerweise überspannt vor, als würden sie überhaupt nicht in den Rahmen eines realistischen Dramas aus Afghanistan passen. Insbesondere der abschließende Versuch einen Monologs im Stile des Platoons ist sehr instabil. Ebenso bewegen sich auch die Trainingsepisoden, die Bondarchuk in ein interessantes visuelles Konzept einzupacken versucht, bewegen sich hier und da am Rande des Kitsch. Aber dann gibt es vollkommene Enthüllungen wie beispielsweise die "Verehrung von Schneewittchen", eine Szene voller Ideen, Natürlichkeit und Emotionen. Die Schauspieler sind hervorragend, dank ihrer Leistungen gewöhnt man sich schnell an die Bande der sowjetischen Bengel aus allen Ecken und Enden Mütterchen Russlands und gerät so unter die Oberfläche des Geschehens. Die Neunte Kompanie ist manchmal unnötigerweise tolpatschig und versucht krampfhaft, ein Drama zu schaffen ... zum Glück ist der Film selbst größtenteils dramatischen Charakters an sich.
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A war movie of the “hard on the assault course, even harder on the battlefield" kind... In technical terms the picture was pretty decent, but it is brought down heavily in the first half by the military training. This is like a low-quality version of the first episode of Band of Brothers “enriched" with incredibly lame moments (for instance the crying officer in the poppy field). Luckily, the second half is no longer so full of cliché and has several powerful moments. But it is a huge shame that the creators copied other, successful war movies, just setting the story in an environment of a conflict familiar for them, without adding anything of their own that we haven’t seen several times over elsewhere. I understand that it is aimed primarily at the home (ex-Soviet) audience (and let’s face it, we Czechs sorely lack a war movie intended only for us), but a little objectivity wouldn’t have hurt.
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The Soviet film school essentially produced war films on an assembly line, but 9th Company follows more so the style and content of American war films from the 1980s. In other words, it is a combination of Full Metal Jacket and Platoon, which is also mimicked in the film's title. It is not a cheap imitation, but rather a very solid piece of craftsmanship and, truth be told, one of the best war films of the last decade. Thanks to the large investments in Russian cinema in recent years and coproduction, it is not a financially deprived film either, so viewers can enjoy the military equipment, generously conceived shots of the military base, and large-scale battles. As for casting, acting performances, and directing, I have no significant objections, and for about 70% of the film I thought I was watching a five-star film that stood out for its exceptionally high level of authenticity. I had the opportunity to speak at length with an eyewitness of the Afghan war, who spent eight years in the war zone, and his narrative aligned with the atmosphere of the film. The attack on the transport plane or the ambush of a military convoy in the pass perfectly fits the way the war was fought at that time. The plane destruction scene is also visually impressive. However, the final grand battle comes, which, from the perspective of a popular culture viewer, is again gratifyingly filmed and directed, but it is unrealistic and reminded me of heroic images from the Soviet era, like "the last heroic defenders of Sevastopol resist the fascist superiority." Ultimately, the closing credits depict the nature of this conflict far more soberly when it comes to the number of casualties. Similar open battles were exceptional in the Afghan war because they demonstrated better tactical preparedness and greater firepower of the Soviet army. It is similar, after all, in present-day Iraq. Otherwise, it is interesting to compare this Russian film precisely with American films about the Vietnam War. American films - even those with an anti-war orientation - depict their soldiers as winners, and if an American soldier falls, he must almost inevitably shoot at least ten Vietnamese soldiers before he dies. Russian soldiers die like flies. Bullets find them much more often than they do the Afghan rebels. The primary goal of 9th Company is to portray Russian soldiers as men who are not afraid to die but fulfill their mission and at the same time show that this war was not theirs. Their deployment was decided by the elders of the Central Committee of the CPSU. Today's Russia is not so much following the era of the Soviet Union as it is emphasizing pre-revolutionary Russia and particularly highlighting service to the country and self-sacrifice. At the same time, there is not a single scene in the film where an Afghan civilian clearly dies. The goal of the film is not self-flagellation like in American production; Russian soldiers, after all, fulfill the tasks assigned to them....Overall impression: 80%.
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Ein ausladender russischer Kriegsfilm. Zu ausladend. Und obwohl es ein russischer Film ist, macht er ein US-amerikanisches Gesicht. Es stimmt, dass er ab und zu groß und fast bewundernswert ist. Stellenweise wirkt er aber schrecklich theatralisch, peinlich und langweilig. Außerdem war es für mich schwierig, die Haupthelden auseinanderzuhalten, was mich immer stört. Der Film Tobruk ist viel, viel besser.
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