The 9th Company

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "The 9th Company" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (July 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

The 9th Company
Film poster
Russian	9 рота
Directed by	Fyodor Bondarchuk
Written by	Yuri Korotkov
Produced by	Fyodor Bondarchuk Iskander Galiev Alexander Rodnyansky Yelena Yatsura Salim Abduvaliev
Starring	Fyodor Bondarchuk Aleksei Chadov Mikhail Evlanov
Cinematography	Maksim Osadchy
Edited by	Igor Litoninsky
Music by	Dato Evgenidze
Distributed by	Art Pictures Group Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date	29 September 2005 (2005-09-29)[1]
Running time	130 minutes
Countries	Russia Ukraine Finland
Language	Russian
Budget	$9.5 million[citation needed]
Box office	$26.1 million[2]

The 9th Company (Russian: 9 рота, romanized: 9 rota) is a 2005 Russian war film directed by Fedor Bondarchuk and set during the Soviet–Afghan War. The film is loosely based on a real-life battle that took place at Hill 3234 in early 1988, during Operation Magistral, the last large-scale Soviet military operation in Afghanistan. It received generally positive reviews from critics.

The film was selected as the Russian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 79th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.