The Beast
The Beast of War
United States
1988
111 Min
Color
English, Pashtu
Synopsis
Afghanistan, 1981, and the Soviet Union is locked in a futile and bloody battle with the Mujahedeen. Separated from their patrol after a vicious attack on an Afghani village, a T-62 tank engages in a deadly game of cat and mouse with the local mujahed, led by the Afghan Taj. The tyrannical and increasingly unstable tank commander Daskal pushes the moral boundaries of the tank driver Constantine Koverchenko to the limits, with almost dire consequences. Sensing a mutiny, Daskal abandons Koverchenko to die in the desert at the hand of the Afghans, only to find that he’s sealed his own fate.–IMDb
Director
Kevin Reynolds
Describing his childhood as that of a typical Air Force brat and the oldest of 2 brothers and a sister, Kevin Reynolds graduated from Baylor University in Waco, Texas with a B.A. and then a J.D. (law degree) in the early 1970s. His father was a tenured psychology professor and University vice-president, who later became the school’s president and present (as of February 2000) chancellor. After law school, Reynolds practiced law in Austin for a couple of years but decided that his love for movies was too strong to allow him to continue be a lawyer. He packed all of his belongings in his car, drove to Los Angeles, and enrolled in USC film school, where he was later recognized for a student film (which later became Fandango (1985)) and befriended future actor-director Kevin Costner. When Steven Spielberg happened to run across Reynold’s student film on one occasion, he gave Reynolds a shot at directing a full-length version of the film, which was the mildly cultish road comedy, Fandango… read more
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