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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.
Afghanistan France Earth and Ashes: خاکستر و خاک: Atiq Rahimi: Drama. Based on a novel Earth and Ashes. 2005 Russia Ukraine Finland The 9th Company: 9 рота: Fyodor Bondarchuk: Action, Drama, History, War. Battle for Hill 3234: 2006 France Germany Afghanistan The Soldier's Star: L'étoile du soldat: Christophe de Ponfilly: Drama ...
Afghan Breakdown ( Russian: Афганский излом, translit. Afganskiy Izlom) is a 1991 war drama film about the Soviet–Afghan War directed by Vladimir Bortko and co-produced by Italy and the Soviet Union ( Lenfilm ). [ 1] Michele Placido plays the protagonist, Major Bandura, a commander of a unit of Soviet paratroopers, co-starring ...
Budget. $75 million. Box office. $119.5 million [ 1] Charlie Wilson's War is a 2007 American biographical comedy-drama film based on the story of U.S. Congressman Charlie Wilson and CIA operative Gust Avrakotos, whose efforts led to Operation Cyclone, a program to organize and support the Afghan mujahideen during the Soviet–Afghan War (1979 ...
The Soviet–Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) from 1979 to 1989. The war was a major conflict of the Cold War as it saw extensive fighting between Soviet Union, the DRA and allied paramilitary groups against the Afghan mujahideen and their allied foreign fighters.
The Tajbeg Palace assault, known by the military codename Operation Storm-333 ( Russian: Шторм-333, Štorm-333 ), was a military raid executed by the Soviet Union in Afghanistan on 27 December 1979. Special forces and airborne troops stormed the heavily fortified Tajbeg Palace in Kabul and assassinated Afghan leader Hafizullah Amin, a ...
Red Dawn (Russian: Красный Pассвет) is a 1984 American action drama film directed by John Milius with a screenplay by Milius and Kevin Reynolds.The film depicts a fictional World War III centering on a military invasion of the United States by an alliance of Soviet, Warsaw Pact, and Communist Latin American states.
The Soviet Unionwas the first country to establish diplomatic relations with Afghanistan following the Third Anglo-Afghan Warin 1919.[2] On 28 February 1921, Afghanistan and the Soviet Russia signed a Friendship Treaty.[3] The Soviet Union intervened in Afghanistan against the Basmachi movementin 1929and 1930.