Afghan breakdown

Movie
German title	Afghan Breakdown - Hell with no way out
Original title	Афганский излом Afganskiy izlom
Country of production	Soviet Union , Italy
original language	Russian , Italian
Publishing year	1990
length	140 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Vladimir Bortko
script	Alexander Chervinsky Michail Leschchinsky Leonid Bogachuk Ada Petrowa
production	Giovanni di Clemente Alexander Golutwa
music	Vladimir Dashkevich
camera	Valery Fedozov Pavel Sasyadko
cut	Mauro Bonanni
occupation
Michele Placido : Major Bandura Tatiana Dogileva : Katya Mikhail Shigalov : Colonel Filipp Jankowski : Nikita Steklov Alexei Serebryakov : Arsenyov Nina Ruslanova : Tanya Nikolai Ustinov : Vasya Onisimov Renat Ibragimow : Denis Popov Muso Issoyev : Adil Khoshim Rakhimov : Gulakhan Kiem Yakub : Gulakhan's son Artur Uvarov : Ivanov Yuri Kuznetsov : Shchup Viktor Proskurin : Simakov Sergei Issavnin : Sedykh Leonid Kulagin : General Wali Latifi : Dzheluddin Alessandro Stefanelli : Seva

The war drama Afghan Breakdown ( russian Афганский излом ) is a Soviet-Italian co-production, directed by Vladimir Bortko from the year 1990. The movie is the situation shortly before the departure of the Soviet army from Afghanistan in 1989 at the end of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan is All shooting took place in Russia. The film premiered in France in May 1991. It was produced by Lenfilm .

action

The film begins with the explicit representation of the circumcision of an Afghan infant.

The focus of the action is a Soviet military camp in Afghanistan shortly before the withdrawal of the Soviet army in 1989. Major Bandura, company commander of a paratrooper unit , has to accept heavy losses in the fight against the Afghan rebels led by the Mujahed Adil. New arrival Lieutenant Nikita went to war against the wishes of his father, a Russian general . The father worries about his son's well-being at home and agrees by telephone with the camp commandant ( colonel ) to keep his son's combat missions to a minimum.

When the troops visit a market, the nervous soldier Ivanov shoots a suspicious trader. Major Bandura slips the dead man a hand grenade to portray / denounce him as an assassin. A Soviet supply convoy is attacked by Afghan rebels. For Major Bandura, Adil is the only possible perpetrator and he considers retaliation to be the only appropriate response. The colonel refuses and orders the handing over of gifts (50 machine guns, ammunition and a few sacks of flour) to appease. The villager Gulakhan acts as a middleman. Adil is not satisfied and asks for more gifts during the handover.

Shortly afterwards, another Soviet supply convoy is attacked. Nikita is seriously injured because he was part of the convoy's escort . Later one of his feet is amputated. Now the colonel is also in favor of retaliation. Adil's village is about to be attacked. However, Gulakhan assures Adil's innocence. This time the assassins were Pakistani mujahideen.

A Russian general visits the troops in the camp. He reports on a peace agreement between the Soviet government / military leadership and the Islamist rebels. However, the attack that injured Nikita now jeopardizes the agreement. An attack on the Pakistani rebels is being prepared. This time, Adil's village, where the Pakistani rebels are also staying, is to be wiped out. Adil should be spared if he behaves neutrally. Three tanks make their way to Adil's village. The attack, led by Bandura, begins. Bandura accidentally kills Gulakhan's family in an urban warfare. Eventually the entire village is bombed. A young boy survives the attack and shoots Bandura with a Kalashnikov. It is Gulakhan's son. The troop withdrawal begins.

criticism

"A noisy war film, which also shows harassment in the Red Army, but does not further explore the human, political and social dimensions of the conflicts, but is content with describing a military disaster."

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

Tatyana Dogileva was awarded the Best Actress Award for her role at the Sochi Russian Open Film Festival .

Web links

• Afghan Breakdown in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Afghan Breakdown in the German dubbing file
• Afghan Breakdown on allrovi.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Afghan Breadown - Hell With No Way Out. In: Zelluloid.de. Archived from the original on January 11, 2017 ; accessed on September 16, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Afghan Breakdown. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 16, 2018 .  

Remarks

1. ↑ At least in the German dubbing he is called a colonel; his badge of rank, however, corresponds to that of a lieutenant colonel .