The Beast (also: The Beast of War) is a 1988 Columbia Pictures war film directed by Kevin Reynolds and based on a William Mastrosimone play entitled Nanawatai. The plot concerns a Soviet T-62 tank lost during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The movie has enjoyed a recent release onto DVD, further enhancing its cult-favourite status in spite of its disappointingly-low box-office statistics.
The film is prefaced with a quote from Rudyard Kiplin...
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The Beast (also: The Beast of War) is a 1988 Columbia Pictures war film directed by Kevin Reynolds and based on a William Mastrosimone play entitled Nanawatai. The plot concerns a Soviet T-62 tank lost during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The movie has enjoyed a recent release onto DVD, further enhancing its cult-favourite status in spite of its disappointingly-low box-office statistics.
The film is prefaced with a quote from Rudyard Kipling:
When you're wounded an' left on Afghanistan's plains
An' the women come out to cut up your remains
Jus' roll to your rifle an' blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.
In 1981, a Soviet T-62 tank unit in Afghanistan destroys a Pashtun village, before one of the tanks commanded by the ruthless Commander Daskal (George Dzundza) gets separated from the unit, and enters a dead end valley.
Taj (Steven Bauer) returns to discover the village destroyed, and his brother gruesomely executed by being crushed under the tank by the...
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