9-ta Kompania (2025)

If you only watch one war film from post-Soviet cinema, make it 9th Company ( 9-Ta Kompania ).

They fight. They lose limbs. They cry for their mothers. They hold the hill. 9-Ta Kompania

As the sun rises, the handful of survivors survey the carnage. They have won. They have held the line. A helicopter arrives, not with ammunition, but with news. The radio crackles: If you only watch one war film from

Wait, what?

But here is the masterstroke of the film: They cry for their mothers

For weeks, they wait. They freeze in the snow. They argue. They philosophize. They listen to rumors that the war is ending. The enemy is invisible. The tension becomes unbearable. You start to feel the paranoia of a soldier who has been staring at an empty horizon for too long. And then, hell breaks loose.