War in Afghanistan 78-89
Civil war in Afghanistan 1978-1989, Soviet intervention, participating of American and Chinese military specialists.
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorNikita TyagunovStarsIvan OkhlobystinPyotr MamonovIvan ZakhavaSurreal drama based on the novel of the same name by William Faulkner. The first Russian film on the war in Afghanistan and Afghan syndrome.
- DirectorYuri MarukhinStarsAristarkh LivanovAndrey MyagkovMälik DadashevA Soviet journalist is investigating the causes of a new epidemic in Afghanistan. There is reason to believe that it is spread by a new species of mosquito.
- DirectorIvan SolovovStarsAleksandr Pankratov-ChyornyyBoris KhmelnitskiyElena KondulaynenSoviet troops are no longer in Afghanistan and some Afghan leaders believe that the war is still going on. They have a special order - to destroy a regiment of border guards in Tadzhikistan.
- DirectorTimur BekmambetovStarsBarry KushnerViktor VerzhbitskiyDavid KheirdInterviewing prisoners somewhere near the Afghan/Pakistani border, American photojournalist Charlie Palmer and medic Victor Davis are caught in a violent insurrection where the lines between friends and foes are blurred and smashed.
- DirectorTimur BekmambetovGennadiy KayumovStarsO. ChernyshevGennadiy KayumovBarry KushnerA violent action thriller, which launched the career of successful Russian genre auteur Timur Bekmambetov, in which prisoners try to make an 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.
- DirectorGeorgiy KuznetsovStarsRomualds AncansAleksandr DanilchenkoAleksandr CheskidovAfghanistan. 1986. A column of soviet military armour heads from the frontier for Kabul, along a mountain road. It is shielded from air by military helicopters. The way of a column lies through the only bridge in the neighbourhood. Afghan militants are well informed about it, and, led by an American instructor, they prepare a trap. At the moment a Soviet geological expedition, located in mountains, is exposed to a night attack of dushmans (transl. from Afghanian enemy). The Afghan column disperses and geologists decide to go to Kabul. On their way they get information about an approaching soviet column, which would make their trip to Kabul much safer. But they dont know that they are already a part of the operation on the bridge.
- StarsAleksey AnishchenkoOlga PavlovetsOlga KaboAndrei Potyomkin, frontier guard cadet, learns that his MIA father who fought in the Soviet-Afghan war is accused of treason. He is trying to find out the truth about his father's death, and together with a young promising journalist Alyona Nikitina, exposes a criminal group of servicemen who trade missiles to mojaheddin and terrorists. They are not ready to let their profitable business go easily...
- DirectorVladimir MazurStarsAleksandr LitovchenkoA Soviet veteran of the war in Afghanistan joins up with a gang of crooks after returning to life as a civilian.
- DirectorVladimir MazurStarsVladimir MazurYuriy GrebelnikA sequel to the 1991 feature Afganets, about a returning Soviet fighter from Afghanistan who had turned to crime.
- 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.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsAgniya KuznetsovaAleksey PoluyanLeonid GromovA young woman is taken hostage by a police officer gone mad.
- DirectorSergey NilovStarsVadim StepashkinJuozas KiseliusD. BryzzhanovThe film tells the story of a Russian soldier captured by Afghan Mujahideen, and his successful escape.
- StarsMegumi ToyoguchiDaisuke NamikawaBrad SwaileA Japanese businessman, captured by modern-day pirates, is written off and left for dead by his company. Tired of the corporate life, he opts to stick with the mercenaries that kidnapped him, becoming part of their gang.
- DirectorJohn GlenStarsTimothy DaltonMaryam d'AboJeroen KrabbéJames Bond is sent to investigate a KGB policy to kill all enemy spies, and uncovers an arms deal that potentially has major global ramifications.
- 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.
- DirectorMike NicholsStarsTom HanksJulia RobertsPhilip Seymour HoffmanA drama based on a Texas congressman Charlie Wilson's covert dealings in Afghanistan, where his efforts to assist rebels in their war with the Soviets have some unforeseen and long-reaching effects.
- DirectorPeter MacDonaldStarsSylvester StalloneRichard CrennaMarc de JongeRambo mounts a one-man mission to rescue his friend Colonel Trautman from the clutches of the formidable invading Soviet forces in Afghanistan.
- DirectorMarc ForsterStarsKhalid AbdallaAhmad Khan MahmoodzadaAtossa LeoniAfter spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.
- DirectorTonino RicciStarsBruno MinnitiKiwako HaradaWerner PochathA small group of mercenaries are sent to Afghanistan to rescue a doctor and his daughter, who are being held captive
- 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.
- DirectorPierluigi CiriaciStarsMark GregoryJohn VernonSavina GersakA group of soldiers find themselves trapped behind enemy lines in Afghanistan. Their only hope for survival is to board a specially-designed bus.
- DirectorVladimir ShamshurinStarsLeonid LyutvinskyRimma LatypovaYelena StarostinaThis life period of the main character Felix (L. Lutvinsky) coincides with rather complicated period of country history Chernenko dies, Gorbachev succeeds him, then Ligachev criticizes Eltsin, county is reined by deficit, backstairs influence, queues, war in Afghanistan Having invented nothing better, electrical engineer escapes from reality and becomes a street cleaner. He is a kind of going underground, locking himself in a stuffy cleaners box room and pretending that nothing arouses his interest.
- StarsSergey MarinSvetlana IvanovaSergey KolesnikovSpring 1985. Intelligence officer Yuri Nikitin gets into the Pakistani fortress in Badaber. He was ordered by the Soviet Military Intelligence service to collect the evidence of existence of a Mujahideen training center operated by CIA. Having completed this life-threatening task, Nikitin finds a group of Russian prisoners of war, one of whom is his friend Mikhail, the son of his commander General Kolesov, who has been listed as missing in action for several years. Nikitin decides to stay and to rescue the condemned. He inspires the soldiers to regain hope and to start a riot against the armed to the teeth armed at all points Mujahideen.