Based on real-life events, 9th COMPANY recounts a year in the shared lives of a group of young soldiers drafted to serve in Afghanistan during the final year of the Soviet conflict. The poignant story of one unit‚s dedication to each other during their valiant defense of Position 3234, 9th COMPANY follows this small group of soldiers during a heated, and futile, battle that ravaged their forgotten company, as they fought on, unaware that the war had ended. The film was Russia's official submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.