Overview

The film opens in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, in late 1988, when army Trainers Petrovsky, Ryaba, Chugun, Stas, Pinochet, Lyutev and Vorobyev are whipped into shape at a training camp by the brutal, sadistic commander,'' Warrant Officer Dygalo - before to being shipped off to the front lines. After several onebyone dalliances with the neighborhood whore, snowwhite, and a cautionary lecture on the history, geography and culture of Afghanistan (which the majority of the men sleep ), the Warriors head off to battle - original towards the Bagram air base, subsequently towards the Afghani province of Khost to secure supply lines. But nothing can begin to prepare them for even the constant wave of slaughter that scatters thousands of Soviet sufferers in its wake, or the devastation to which they're dropped.