The Ascent

7.8 1977 Larisa Shepitko 1h 49m
Drama War
The Ascent

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.

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
Sergei Yakovlev Petr Sych, village elder
Mariya Vinogradova Mariya Vinogradova Village elder's wife
Mykola Sektymenko Mykola Sektymenko Stas Gomenyuk, collaborationist policeman
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