Title of film : Leaving Afghanistan
Director Name : Pavel Lungin
Cast & crew :
Producer : Evgeniy Panfilov,Pavel Lungin
Editor : NA
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Synopsis : 1988, the eve of the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan. The 108th Motor Rifle Division Command plans the withdrawal though the Salang Pass controlled by a group of Mujahideen led by Engineer Hashem. The Intelligence service tires to negotiate armistice with the Mujahideen but the situation grows complicated when Hashem captures a Soviet combat pilot. It starts a complicated game that interweaves conflicting interests of a number of a wide variety of people: staff officers, Islamists, Special Forces, the Intelligence, officials from the Afghan government, Soviet secret service officers, the Tajiks, and the Pashtuns. And in the center of this whirlpool there are the reconnaissance company soldiers, for whom the rule "never leave a man behind" is more important than any political reasons.
Director Bio : Pavel Semyonovich Lungin (born July 12, 1949) is a Russian film director. He is sometimes credited as Pavel Loungine (as in the American release of Tycoon). Born 12 July 1949 in Moscow, Lungin is the son of a scriptwriter and linguist. He later attended Moscow State University from which he graduated in 1971. Lungin worked primarily as a scriptwriter until given the opportunity to direct Taxi Blues at age 40. Lungin was awarded the Best Director Prize at 1990 Cannes Film Festival for the film Taxi Blues starring Pyotr Mamonov. That same year he took up residence in France, while making films in and about Russia with French producers. Two years later, his next film Luna Park would also compete at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival. In 1993 he was a member of the jury at the 18th Moscow International Film Festival. He was the librettist for Nikolai Karetnikov's opera Till Eulenspiegel (written 1983) and Karetnikov's oratorio The Mystery of St. Paul. In 2006 he directed the religious film The Island which also starred Mamonov. The film closed the 63rd Venice International Film Festival and was praised by the Russian Orthodox Church leader Alexis II. Lungin was awarded the distinction People's Artist of Russia in 2008. In 2009 he was the President of the Jury at the 31st Moscow International Film Festival. In March 2014 he signed a letter in support of the position of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin on Russia's military intervention in Ukraine.
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