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The Beast
1988
The Soviet Union is engaged in a battle with the Mujahedeen guerrillas in Afghanistan, 1981. A crew from a Russian T-62 tank becomes separated from their patrol and what ensues is a cat and mouse battle to the death... Read more
| Starring | George Dzundza, Jason Patric, Steven Bauer, Stephen Baldwin |
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| Director | Kevin Reynolds |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Drama |
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The Beast
The Soviet Union is engaged in a battle with the Mujahedeen guerrillas in Afghanistan, 1981. A crew from a Russian T-62 tank becomes separated from their patrol and what ensues is a cat and mouse battle to the death...
| Starring | George Dzundza, Jason Patric, Steven Bauer, Stephen Baldwin |
|---|---|
| Director | Kevin Reynolds |
| Studio | UCA |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 45 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Dubbed | French, German, Italian, Spanish |
| Subtitles | DVD: Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 13 Oct 2003 Production year: 1988 |
| Format | DVD |
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Filmed on extraordinary desert locations in Israel, this superior war movie effortlessly fuses the moral complexity of... read more on Time Out
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Dull, violent, unilluminating war movie, conducted on a pitch of hysteria.
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20 out of 22 people found this review helpful
You can't be a good soldier in a bad war
Wars are led by psychopaths, but fuelled by ordinary people whose finer feelings are suppressed. This tale of war set in Afghanistan (actually filmed in Israel) could have its setting in any of the late twentieth century/early 21st century war theatres. It is brutal, ugly, and portrays well, how the futility of invading a barren, hostile land and killing people who are little more than peasants, gets lost in a welter of small, dehumanising, vicious skirmishes. It's worth seeing for the tiny glimpses of human dignity and the glimmering of honour on both sides of the war.
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20 out of 22 people found this review helpful
You can't be a good soldier in a bad war
Wars are led by psychopaths, but fuelled by ordinary people whose finer feelings are suppressed. This tale of war set in Afghanistan (actually filmed in Israel) could have its setting in any of the late twentieth century/early 21st century war theatres. It is brutal, ugly, and portrays well, how the futility of invading a barren, hostile land and killing people who are little more than peasants, gets lost in a welter of small, dehumanising, vicious skirmishes. It's worth seeing for the tiny glimpses of human dignity and the glimmering of honour on both sides of the war.
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