Okhotniki za karavanami

TV Movie
2010
3h

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1986, Afghanistan. The Mujahideen announce the launch of a new air-defense system called Stinger, which could potentially end Soviet supremacy in the air. Commander of Intelligence, Major Ok... Read all1986, Afghanistan. The Mujahideen announce the launch of a new air-defense system called Stinger, which could potentially end Soviet supremacy in the air. Commander of Intelligence, Major Okovalkov is assigned the mission of getting hold of this new weapon and to do this, he has ... Read all1986, Afghanistan. The Mujahideen announce the launch of a new air-defense system called Stinger, which could potentially end Soviet supremacy in the air. Commander of Intelligence, Major Okovalkov is assigned the mission of getting hold of this new weapon and to do this, he has to intercept a small caravan transporting, according to intelligence information, a couple... Read all

Director
- Sergey Chekalov
Writers
- Vadim Bochanov
- Igor Shevtsov
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6.7/10

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Director
- Sergey Chekalov
Writers
- Vadim Bochanov
- Igor Shevtsov
Stars

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7/10

Made for TV - a twist on history

Before I give this impeccable Russian TV series a review.... it is important to take into account the actual true factual history of Russia in Afghanistan... let me bring you up to speed with some facts, without any opinions attached... Fact 1.. Former soviet Union had Islam as it's second most popular religion Fact 2.. The democratically elected government of Afghanistan were pro communist Fact 3.. there was an armed uprising against the democratically elected government Fact 4... Afghan Government asked for support from Soviet Russia, (which is incorrectly labelled as an invasion... they were there by invitation) Fact 4.. USA did not like Russia there and began funding weapons to the forces opposed to the democratically elected government Fact 5... USA funding the opposition caused the defeat and expulsion of Soviet forces Fact 6... after Soviet Union was expelled from Afghanistan, USA withdrew all promised future funding to Afghanistan for schools, hospitals etc.. and civil wars subsequently broke out overthrowing the democratically elected government and the Taliban took over.

I offer no opinions... just giving you the facts... you can go googling it for confirmation that what I share is true (I am a military historian)..

So now the review... This a very provoking TV series... Of course, as a Russian TV series it would be expected to offer some bias, but it does not. Surprisingly, the series focuses on the soldiers and not the politics. Politics are not even mentioned. It simply just shows the Russians facing a USA funded enemy and beginning to lose. It shows the relationships of soldiers as do many war themed movies and dramatizes the horrors of war. The acting is excellent. The cinematography is A1. Militarily, it is accurate. I think most westerners would fail to pick up the obvious demonstration this TV series shows of the emergence of the over zealous religious Taliban. Overall, I found it very entertaining and gives a very good perspective of the Russian concept of that war. Of course, it is not a factual historical documentary that you would reference in a thesis, but I would say that this is a movie you can by watching it, know it is at the very high end of accuracy and one that you could rely on to form your opinions of what happened in that war, and what happened after that war, and why 911 happened. I thoroughly recommend this to be viewed, particular by USA people.