Underplayed Gems

All Costs Paid (1988)

All Costs Paid poster
Original title
За всё заплачено
Directed by
Aleksei Saltykov
Genre
drama television series, war television series
Country
Soviet Union
Length
1 season, 3 episodes
Rated
16+
Rating
7.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

After fighting in the Soviet-Afghan War, a group of former soldiers travels to Siberia to raise money for a memorial to their fallen comrades. The miniseries follows their efforts and the emotional burden they carry.

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What happens

All Costs Paid (Russian: За всё заплачено translit. Za vsyo zaplacheno) is a Soviet TV miniseries produced by Studio Ekran. The director Alexey Saltykov well known for his film The Chairman (Russian: "Председатель" translit. "Predsedatel") with Mikhail Ulyanov, an acclaimed Russian actor playing a main character. All Costs Paid is one of the first Soviet feature films that shows the war in Afghanistan. Film has unusually truthful point of view on that period of Soviet Era and on the Soviet–Afghan War. After the war several Russian ex-soldiers go to Siberia to raise money for a memorial to their friends killed in Afghanistan. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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