Fyodor BONDARCHUK
Федор БОНДАРЧУК
Fiodor BONDARTCHOUK
Russia / Ukraine / Finland, 2005, 130mn 
Colour, fiction
9th Company
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9 рота

 

 Le Neuvième escadron

 9 rota

 
Directed by : Fyodor BONDARCHUK (Федор БОНДАРЧУК)
Writing credits : Yuri KOROTKOV (Юрий КОРОТКОВ)
 
Cast
Aleksandr BASHIROV (Александр БАШИРОВ)
Fyodor BONDARCHUK (Федор БОНДАРЧУК)
Aleksey CHADOV (Алексей ЧАДОВ)
Soslan FIDAROV (Сослан ФИДАРОВ)
Stanislav GOVORUKHIN (Станислав ГОВОРУХИН)
Ivan KOKORIN (Иван КОКОРИН)
Aleksey KRAVCHENKO (Алексей КРАВЧЕНКО)
Konstantin KRIUKOV (Константин КРЮКОВ)
Amadu MAMADAKOV (Амаду МАМАДАКОВ)
Artiom MIKHALKOV (Артем МИХАЛКОВ)
Dmitry MUKHAMADEYEV (Дмитрий МУХАМАДЕЕВ)
Ivan NIKOLAYEV (Иван НИКОЛАЕВ)
Mikhail PORECHENKOV (Михаил ПОРЕЧЕНКОВ)
Irina RAKHMANOVA (Ирина РАХМАНОВА)
Aleksey SEREBRIAKOV (Алексей СЕРЕБРЯКОВ)
Artur SMOLYANINOV (Артур СМОЛЬЯНИНОВ)
Mikhail YEFREMOV (Михаил ЕФРЕМОВ)
Mikhail YEVLANOV (Михаил ЕВЛАНОВ)
 
Cinematography : Maksim OSADCHY (Максим ОСАДЧИЙ)
Production design : Grigori PUSHKIN (Григорий ПУШКИН)
Music : Dato EVGENIDZE (Дато ЕВГЕНИДЗЕ)
Produced by : Fyodor BONDARCHUK (Федор БОНДАРЧУК), Andrey FEOFANOV (Андрей ФЕOФАНОВ), Sergey MELKUMOV (Сергей МЕЛЬКУМОВ), Stepan MIKHALKOV (Степан МИХАЛКОВ), Aleksandr RODNYANSKY (Александр РОДНЯНСКИЙ), Yelena YATSURA (Елена ЯЦУРА)
Production : Art Pictures Studio, Société de production «Slovo» (Продюсерская компания "Слово") ; la chaîne TV «1+1» Ukraine (Телеканал "1+1" Украина)
Film revenue in Russia : 25.6 million dollars
Release date in Russia : 29/09/2005
 
Sites : Allociné, IMDb, Kinopoisk
VOD or DVD release in France : 2014-06-11, Site

Awards :
Best film Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2006
Best Cinematography Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2006
Best music Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2006
Best film "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2006

DVD with subtitles
Editor : kinovista. 2008.
Langues : R, F
Sous-titres : F

Plot synopsis
Heroic drama.
About life and death, duty and honour, brotherhood and courage; about desperate brave men who survived and died in the Afghan mountains. The plot is based on the fate of real soldiers of the Afghan War. The action takes place in 1987-89, and ends with the withdrawal of the Soviet forces from Afghanistan. Seven 18-year-old Muscovites, who have voluntary enrolled for the ìAfghan Unitî, meet at the an induction base. They sit on the school bench before they are assigned to the well-known Ninth Company of the Parachute Troupe 345 ñ the most efficient and heroic detachment. In a fierce fight with the ìblack storksî under the command of Osama Ben Laden, and without communication, the soldiers defend the heights, but almost everyone perishes.
Source : www.kinotavr.ru
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Le 9e escadron (2005), Julien MORVAN, Perestroikino, 2021
RUSSIA BEYOND : Les dix meilleurs films de guerre russes, Boris EGOROV, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2020
Two Decades of Post-Soviet Cinema : Taking Stock of Our Stocktaking, Seth GRAHAM, kinokultura.com, 2008
Fedor Bondarchuk : Company 9 (9-aia rota), 2005, Dawn SECKLER, kinokultura.com, 2006
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- War in contemporary Russian cinema, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- VOD or DVD release in France of the film:, Different cities (France), 2014
- Festival of russian Culture "Russia-Italy", Rome (Italy), 2011
- Mixmoviefestival, Internet (International), 2010
- Antalya "Golden Orange" International Film Festival, Antalya (Turkey), 2010
- Monaco Charity Film Festival, Monaco (Principality of Monaco), 2009
- Russian film festival in Sweden 'KinoRiurik', Stockholm (Sweden), 2007
- Palm Springs International Film Festival, Palm Springs (USA), 2007
- Russian Art Festival, Cannes (France), 2006
- Festival de Cannes, Cannes (France), 2006
- Warsaw Film Festival, Warsaw (Poland), 2006
- "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival (formerly ''A Window to Europe''), Vyborg (Russia), 2006
- Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2006
- International Film Festival of the Commonwealth Countries "Moscow Premiere", Moscow (Russia), 2006
- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2006
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2006
- International Film Festival Bratislava, Brastislava (Slovakia), 2006
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2005
- "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival (formerly ''A Window to Europe''), Vyborg (Russia), 2004

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