THE NINTH COMPANY
synopsis
Irrelevant to politics, The Ninth Legion is a movie about people and fate. Young soldiers lives were filled with loss and defeat. They were fighting for the Soviet empire – for nothing: upon their return home the Soviet Union had already collapsed.
| international title: | NINTH COMPANY, THE (NINTH LEGION, THE) |
| original title: | 9-YA ROTA |
| country: | Finland, Russian Federation |
| year: | 2004 |
| genre: | fiction |
| directed by: | Fëdor Bondarchuk |
| film run: | 130' |
| release date: | 29/09/05 (RU) |
| screenplay: | Yoriy Korotkov |
| cast: | Mikhail Porechenkov, Nikolay Fomenko, Alexey Chadov, Yuriy Kolokolnikov, Dimitriy Dyuzhev, Alexander Bashirov |
| cinematography by: | Maksim Osadchiy |
| art director: | Grigori Pushkin |
| music: | Dato Evgenidze |
| producer: | Ilkka Y.L. Matila |
| production: | MRP - Matila Röhr Productions, Finnish Film Foundation |
