Afghan Breakdown

Afghan Breakdown (Афганский излом)
Russian DVD cover
Directed by	Vladimir Bortko
Written by	Leonid Bogachuk Aleksandr Chervinsky Mikhail Leshchinskiy Ada Petrova
Produced by	Aleksandr Golutva
Starring	Michele Placido (Russian voice by Oleg Yankovsky) Mikhail Zhygalov Aleksei Serebryakov Yuri Kuznetsov Tatyana Dogileva Vladimir Yeryomin Slava N. Jakovleff
Cinematography	Valeri Fedosov Pavel Zasyadko
Edited by	Mauro Bonanni
Music by	Vladimir Dashkevich
Production company	Lenfilm
Release date	1991 (1991)
Running time	140 minutes
Countries	Soviet Union Italy
Languages	Russian, Italian

Afghan Breakdown (Russian: Афганский излом, translit. Afganskiy Izlom) is a 1991 war drama film about the Soviet–Afghan War directed by Vladimir Bortko and co-produced by Italy and the Soviet Union (Lenfilm).^[1] Michele Placido plays the protagonist, Major Bandura, a commander of a unit of Soviet paratroopers, co-starring with several popular Soviet actors.

The movie is still regarded by many movie critics as the best account of the war, despite newer box-office hits such as The 9th Company.^[2] Director Vladimir Bortko invited Mikhail Leshchinskiy (a Soviet TV war reporter who worked in Afghanistan for 4.5 years) as a co-writer and visited Kabul and Kandahar in 1988 to research on the ground.^[3]