The U.S.S.R. in Afghanistan
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- DirectorSergey ChekalovStarsAleksey SerebryakovVsevolod Khovanskiy-PomerantsevBoris Galkin1986, Afghanistan. The Mujahideen announce the launch of a new air-defense system called Stinger, which could potentially end Soviet supremacy in the air. Commander of Intelligence, Major Okovalkov is assigned the mission of getting hold of this new weapon and to do this, he has to intercept a small caravan transporting, according to intelligence information, a couple of Stingers. However, as it turns out, the caravan is a large heavily guarded vehicle with a well-armed escort. Realising that the mission is doomed to fail before it has begun, Okovalkov decides to let the caravan pass and then return to his unit, but his plans are ruined when a young and inexperienced soldier suddenly opens fire. A fight ensues during which most of the Soviet squad is killed. With only seven survivors and no radio contact, Okovalkov's real ordeal begins when he is forced to march his injured men over 45 kilometres back to base.
- DirectorSergey NilovStarsVadim StepashkinJuozas KiseliusD. BryzzhanovThe film tells the story of a Russian soldier captured by Afghan Mujahideen, and his successful escape.
- DirectorZmarai KasiMark M. RissiStarsAmir FaridJawed BaburBushra EjazGHAME AFGHAN was filmed from October 85 to January 86 under extremely difficult conditions in the contested tribal area of Afghanistan/Pakistan by an Afghan-Swiss-Pakistani film crew. Filming took place in the impenetrable mountain ranges near the Khyber Pass, the desert wilderness of Belutshistan and several refugee camps near Peshawar. The film tells the story of an Afghan peasant family getting caught up in the turmoils during the Russian occupation. . The shepherd find a wounded mujahideen and carries him home. The Mujahed dies that night. The dead body is discovered the next day and the shepherd arrested. His family decides to flee to Pakistan. Completely disheartened and destitute, they reach the refugee camp on the other side of the border after days of walking through desert and rocky areas. The family can't get their bearings. They are uprooted. The younger sister is grabbed in the open street and bartered off to a wealthy merchant.
- DirectorChristophe de PonfillyStarsSacha BourdoPatrick ChauvelPhilippe CaubèreA Russian guitarist was enlisted in 1984 in the Afghan war. Imprisoned, he will meet an Afghan musician and a French journalist.
- DirectorKevin ReynoldsStarsGeorge DzundzaJason PatricSteven BauerA Soviet tank and its warring crew become separated from their patrol and lost in an Afghan valley with a group of vengeance-seeking rebels on their tracks.
- DirectorVladimir BortkoStarsMichele PlacidoTatyana DogilevaMikhail ZhigalovThe events of the film take place on the eve of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. The son of a high-ranking military man is sent to the paratrooper unit, commanded by Major Bandura.
- DirectorAtiq RahimiStarsAbdul GhaniJawan Mard HomayounSher AgahElderly Dastaguir and his newly deaf 5-year-old grandson Yassin hitchhike and walk, but mostly walk, as they make their way to the coal mine where Dastaguir's son Murad works. Dastaguir must tell Murad that the rest of their family were all killed in a recent bomb attack.
- DirectorMarc ForsterStarsKhalid AbdallaAhmad Khan MahmoodzadaAtossa LeoniAmir lives in California with his wife Soraya. He receives a call from his uncle Rahim Khan who urges him to travel to Afghanistan and rescue the son of Amir's childhood servant and friend, Hassan.
- DirectorAndrey Shcherbovich-VecherStarsAndrey Shcherbovich-VecherYana KraynovaEkaterina TerentyevaIlya Muromov spent more than 30 years in a lethargic sleep, after contusions in Afghanistan in 1980. Waking up in 2012, he is in a new reality.
- DirectorAleksandr MuratovStarsDmitriy PevtsovTatyana SkorokhodovaBoris ShcherbakovSaveliy Govorkov, an Afghanistan war veteran tries to fight mafia in his own town.
- DirectorAleksandr EfremovStarsTatyana SkorokhodovaAndrey SokolovSergey ShkalikovVeteran of Afghan war Nickolai just demobbed from army and along with his friend goes to resort in Sochi. In one of transit cities he met aspiring singer Tatiana and falls in love with her. Nickolai decides to help in reach dream of his new girlfriend - win the song competition.
- DirectorViktor DotsenkoStarsIgor LivanovAristarkh LivanovMarina ZudinaWhen a man is forced to return to a secret Russian training camp, he decides to plan his escape, not knowing who to trust.
- DirectorBoris KvashnevStarsAleksandr PeskovVladimir GostyukhinOleg RogachyovAfter the Afghan captivity, Nikolai Naydenov, a former orphanage, ends up in the United States, gets a job as an instructor in one of the sports clubs, gets married and receives American citizenship. Life is developing as well as possible. After a while, he comes to his former homeland to his army friend Sergei and learns from his wife that Sergei was killed by order of the leaders of one of the clans of the local mafia. The next day, after brutal torture, the militants also kill Sergei's pregnant wife with several blows to the stomach.
- DirectorVsevolod PlotkinStarsVladimir MenshovAleksandr RozenbaumSergey VekslerRough'n'tumble Afghan war veteran Oleg just wants to take it easy and run his survivalist camp. However, Oleg reluctantly agrees to lead a caravan smuggling drugs and guns across the desert after his estranged son is abducted by some no-count scumbags.
- DirectorAleksandr VoropaevStarsVladimir IlinElena KondratevaStanislav RemmekhPavel Nabatnikov, who fought in Afghanistan, returns to his village, deciding to build a new house on his parents' ashes in order to take the first step towards the revival of the abandoned village.
- DirectorArseniy GonchukovStarsNikolay ButeninYuliya DegtyarenkoElena Elesina'1210' is a shrilly story of a 'small person' seeking justice from the state. All his attempts are bound to fail. He's a superfluous nasty old spot, rejected even by his own family. Going mad is probably the only way out for a totally forgotten war veteran, burgled and miserable. It still remains a question, however, whether the 'crazy' man is really so in our 'normal' world, or it's the world itself which turned crazy from its own indifference. Knocked down by despair, the man resorts to committing a horrible deed. A deed unlikely to be pardoned...
- StarsElena LanderElvira BolgovaAleksey MakarovTheir grandfathers and fathers fought in the Civil War, were sent to Spain, and lived through battles in WWII. The next generation has survived its own tests of will - the Afghanistan war, duty on the edges of the empire, and deadly missions in Africa. Our heroes are two special forces officers - close friends who share all the misfortunes that come their way. But they love the same woman, and that can't be shared.
- DirectorFedor BondarchukStarsArtur SmolyaninovAleksey ChadovKonstantin KryukovA group of Russian army recruits complete training and take their posting in late-1980s Afghanistan, where the insurgents are slowly gaining the upper hand.
- DirectorYuriy MuzykaStarsAnatoliy KotenyovSvetlana BorovskayaBoris BystrovAfghanistan, 1987. Olga, wife of Igor Skvortsov, who is paratrooper in Soviet Army, kidnapped by Afghan rebels and Igor decide to free her by himself without any help of regular army and special forces.
- DirectorVladimir KhotinenkoStarsEvgeniy MironovAleksandr BaluevNina UsatovaA Russian soldier who spent ten years in captivity in Afghanistan, returns to his home village and shocks all its inhabitants because of his conversion to Islam. During his absence, his father hanged himself, his brother served a prison term and his former fiancée has become a woman of very low morals. The village is the scene of endless drinking while the local boss is selling off the land for dollars to new-rich Russians. Our hero turns out as the only sober and hard-working member of the community. However, his attachment to his new faith soon provokes the hatred and rejection of everyone else, including his own family.