Original sentence: Directed by Kevin Reynolds and based on a William Mastrosimone play entitled Nanawatai, The Beast (also: The Beast of War) is a 1988 Columbia Pictures movie about a Soviet T-55 tank lost in Afghanistan during the invasion
Edited sentence: Directed by Kevin Reynolds and based on a William Mastrosimone play entitled Nanawatai, The Beast (also: The Beast of War) is a 1988 Columbia Pictures movie about a Soviet T-55 tank lost in Afghanistan during Soviet-Afghan War