Talk:The 9th Company

The Real Story
Anyone know where to find details on the real story behind 9th company? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Henrylee100 (talk • contribs) 11:43, 21 October 2005

Type in "battle for hill 3234" in the seach engine, that should solve your problem buddy ;) (1sttomars 01:53, 15 April 2007 (UTC))

battle for hill 3234
The wikipedia article about the battle says that "The Soviet forces sustained 37 casualties (out of a force of 39 men), including 9 men killed and 28 injured" Which is right?--Roece 08:45, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

According to Russian version: 6 men were killed and 28 injured including 9 badly injured (34 casualties out of 39). --Wallach2008 (talk) 01:00, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Synopsis?
Characters, storyline etc? This article needs more work. Is the Russian version any more fleshed out? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.10.195.188 (talk) 04:25, 24 November 2007 (UTC) The Russian one refers less on the real world story, but it still only focuses on the last part of the film; only brirfly mentioning that they trained in bootcamp, not actually any of the happenings there. Its a shame really as for all its inacurasies, 9th Campany's a fantastic film. ~Wyrmalla —Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.155.136.21 (talk) 17:56, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

Paratroopers
The "paratroopers" do not receive any apparent jump training. Is that historical, or omitted from the movie for reasons of time perhaps? Varlaam (talk) 16:52, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

The Soviet non-Russian
Do we know what nationality that character is likely to be? Kazakh? Kalmyk? Varlaam (talk) 17:20, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
 * There were several. Pinochet was Chechen (he said he was Muslim from Grozny). 'Khokhol' is common slur for Ukrainians. Oriental looking guy's ethnicity was not mentioned. Or at least I didn't catch it. Errarel (talk) 15:10, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

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"In reality, the story was quite accurate as well. "

This line strikes anyone else as weird? I remember it being "In reality, x and y happened"

When was this added/changed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.91.109.191 (talk) 19:27, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

The US Version?
The end credit states the battle took place on Jan 8 1989... When the real battle happened on Jan 8 1988.. surprised no one else has pointed this out yet.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.26.41.19 (talk) 00:54, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

Finland ?
The first sentence states that this is a:

"The 9th Company (Russian: 9 Рота) is a 2005 Russian–Finnish–Ukrainian film."

What was the Finnish involvement ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.150.16.201 (talk) 15:29, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Finnish company Matila Röhr Productions was involved. According to credits Ilkka Matila was responsible for Visual Effects, financed by Finnish Film Foundation. Errarel (talk) 16:02, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Additional connections?
Lester W. Grau wrote a book entitled "The Bear went over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan". I think that needs to be added in the see also section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.180.108.177 (talk) 02:05, 19 November 2013 (UTC)