Russian army recruits complete training and take their posting in late 1980s Afghanistan, where the insurgents are slowly gaining the upper hand.

• Channel 1+1
• Finnish Film Foundation
• Aleksey Chadov
• Artur Smolyaninov
• Konstantin Kryukov
• Ivan Kokorin
• Artyom Mikhalkov
• Soslan Fidarov
• Mikhail Porechenkov
• Dmitriy Mukhamadeev