The Ascent
The Ascent

The Ascent

7.8109 min
DramaWar

Overview

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.

Movie Info

Release Date: 4/2/1977

Runtime: 109 min

Director: Larisa Shepitko

Writers: Vasili Bykov, Yuri Klepikov, Larisa Shepitko

Top Cast

Boris Plotnikov

Boris Plotnikov

Sotnikov

Vladimir Gostyukhin

Vladimir Gostyukhin

Rybak

Anatoliy Solonitsyn

Anatoliy Solonitsyn

Portnov, collaborationist interrogator

Lyudmila Polyakova

Lyudmila Polyakova

Avginya Demchikha, the mother

Viktoriya Goldentul

Viktoriya Goldentul

Basya Meyer, the girl

Mariya Vinogradova

Mariya Vinogradova

Village elder's wife

Mykola Sektymenko

Mykola Sektymenko

Stas Gomenyuk, collaborationist policeman

Leonid Yukhin

Leonid Yukhin

Partisan commander

Vladimir Rudyy

Vladimir Rudyy

German officer with black glasses

Vasili Kravtsov

Vasili Kravtsov

German officer

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