The Ascent (1977)
During a freezing WWII winter, two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the temperature, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.
- Released
- 1977-04-02
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Larisa Shepitko
- TMDB rating
- 7.9/10 from 265 votes
Cast
- Boris Plotnikov as Sotnikov
- Vladimir Gostyukhin as Rybak
- Anatoliy Solonitsyn as Portnov, Collaborationist Interrogator
- Lyudmila Polyakova as Avginya Demchikha, the Mother
- Viktoriya Goldentul as Basya Meyer, the Girl
- Sergei Yakovlev as Petr Sych, Village Elder
- Mariya Vinogradova as Village Elder's Wife
- Mykola Sektymenko as Stas Gomenyuk, Collaborationist Policeman
- Leonid Yukhin as Partisan Commander
- Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy as German Officer
- Vladimir Rudyy as German Officer with Black Glasses
- Anatoli Chebotaryov as German Officer with Glasses
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