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Apollo11 -> RE: 9th Company (10/21/2006 5:22:29 PM)
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Hi all,
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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
In case anyone cares the Russian title is "Devataya Rota". Good movie. The Russians are good at making gritty war movies. Contrary to pupular belief, a lot of the movies made in the 60s and after on the subject of WW2 are very realistic with hardly any of the party line BS. Some of my personal favorites are "Batalyoni Prosyat Ognya", "Ofitseri" and "Ati Bati".
The first is about a batallion that is ordered to ford the Dniepr and is then abandoned to its anihilation as a diversionary measure. (Based on a book of the same name).
Ofitseri is more about the home front, a boy growing up in the deprivation of wartime USSR while his father dies at the front. Its actually more about the post-war generation and why they turned out the way they did. I think this is also based on a book, but I havent read that one.
"Ati Bati" is actually a screen version of a song (called "Na Bezimyannoy Visote"), if you can beleive it. The story goes that it was an actual occurence that the composer of the song, a wartime military newspaper correspondent, heard of and wrote the song. In any case, its a story of a Komsomol recon company that is sent behind enemy lines to capture a hiltop that controls an important crossroads. The unit of 18 men is then annihilated in repeated assaults. Only 3 men survive to return to their own lines. There was actually another movie, the name of which escapes me, based on the same premise. But that one was set in 1960s USSR, something about how two old war comrades meet again, with many flashbacks and such.
As a young teenager I remember seeing excellent Russian war movie (shoot in black & white) where here were almost no dialogue - just sounds IIRC.
I can't remember the name of the film but I think that it might be "Ivanovo detstvo" by famous Andrei Tarkovsky
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056111/
(this movie was also translated as "My Name Is Ivan" or "Childhood of Ivan" or "Ivan's Childhood")
Other Russian war movies I saw (and I think I saw many of them) were 100% pure propaganda... [:D]
Leo "Apollo11"
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