The Beast of War (1988)

The Soviet Union is in losing, gory, bloody conflict with the Mujahedeen in the early 1980s in Afghanistan. After surprisingly becoming separated from their fellow troops a tank engages the local mujahed in battle in the mountains. The guerrillas are led by the Afghan Taj (Steven Bauer). The crazy, U. S.S. R tyrannical tank commander and officer Daskal (George Dzundza) pushes his men and the morality of the tank driver Constantine Koverchenko (Jason Patric), with almost dismal consequences. Sensing that a mutiny was about to begin, Daskal abandons Koverchenko alone in the desert to die; only to find that he's has doomed himself.