Yesterday after the evening news I caught the last few moments of a pretty good action movie about the war in Afghanistan from 1988, called The Beast, about a Russian soldier who is taken in by Afghans after his commander destroys their village and takes off in a tank leaving him behind. The soldier turns against his commander and helps the Afghans destroy the tank. Afghan women run down and rip the Russian commander to bloody bits in the end.
Unfortunately, the movie wasn't available to rent at my local video store, but I would definitely like to see the rest of it. The location in the last scenes looked about like I would expect southern Afghanistan to look, and I wondered if some realistic scenes of village life were also included.
