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Released · 1977
The Ascent
7.9(261) 1h 50m 1977-04-02
DramaWar
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.
Director · Larisa Shepitko
Writing · Yuri Klepikov, Larisa Shepitko
Cast
Boris Plotnikov
Sotnikov
Vladimir Gostyukhin
Rybak
Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Portnov, Collaborationist Interrogator
Lyudmila Polyakova
Avginya Demchikha, the Mother
Viktoriya Goldentul
Basya Meyer, the Girl
Sergei Yakovlev
Petr Sych, Village Elder
Mariya Vinogradova
Village Elder's Wife
Mykola Sektymenko
Stas Gomenyuk, Collaborationist Policeman
Leonid Yukhin
Partisan Commander
A
Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy
German Officer
Vladimir Rudyy
German Officer with Black Glasses
A
Anatoli Chebotaryov
German Officer with Glasses
