The Ascent
7.9
256 votes
1977
1h 50m
Drama
War
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.
Directed by Larisa Shepitko
Top 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 commanderA
Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy
German officer
Vladimir Rudyy
German officer with black glassesA
Anatoli Chebotaryov
German officer with glasses
Vasili Kravtsov
German officer
Vladimir Tkalich
German officer
Aleksandr Pyatkov
German soldier, executioner
Sergey Yurtaykin
Cart driver
Igor Bezyaev
Soviet partisan
Stanislav Borodokin
Soviet partisan
Stanislav Zhitaryov
Soviet partisanV
Vadim Gusev
Soviet partisanDetails
Status
Released
Release date
April 2, 1977
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Language
German, Russian
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