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Afghan Breakdown is a italien film of genre Drama directed by Vladimir Vladimirovitch Bortko released in USA on 10 october 1991 with Michele Placido

Afghan Breakdown (1991)

Afghan Breakdown
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Released in USA 10 october 1991
Length 2h20
OriginItalie
Genres Drama,    War,    Documentary,    Action
Rating70% 3.5201553.5201553.5201553.5201553.520155

Afghan Breakdown (Russian: Афганский излом, translit. Afganskiy Izlom) is a 1990 war drama film about the Soviet war in Afghanistan directed by Vladimir Bortko and co-produced by Italy and the Soviet Union (Lenfilm). Michele Placido, an Italian TV star popular in the USSR, 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 most veterans as the best account of the war, despite newer box-office hits such as The 9th Company. Director Vladimir Bortko invited Mikhail Leshchinskiy (main Soviet TV war reporter in Afghanistan) as a co-scriptwriter, and even visited Kabul and Kandahar in 1988 to research on the ground.

Synopsis

The events unfold just before the start of the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1988. Lieutenant Steklov, son of a high-ranking General, is assigned to Afghanistan, hoping to take part in combat and earn some medals before the war ends. Sgt. Arsionov (Aleksei Serebryakov) combines his combat experience and bravery with brutal hazing of young conscripts back on the field base. Major Bandura`s tour of duty has expired. He is free to go home and reunite with his wife whom he has almost forgot. This means leaving his mistress Katya (Tatyana Dogileva), a nurse in the base's hospital—to a much anticipation from Bandura's superior Leonid (Mikhail Zhygalov) who fell in love with Katya. Anxiety is felt by many characters about the change taking place back in the Soviet Union during the Perestroika. Bandura himself thinks he might not be able to adapt. Katya says that Afghanistan will be remembered as the best part of their lives.

Actors

Michele Placido

(Major Bandura)Oleg Yankovsky
Tatiana Dogileva

(Katya)Alekseï Serebryakov

(Arsenyov)Vladimir Yeryomin
And :
Leonid Kulagin
Ivan Krasko
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