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The Ascent

(1977)

April 2, 1977• 1h 49m
78%
TMDB Score

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.

Larisa Shepitko

Director

Top Billed Cast

BP

Boris Plotnikov

Sotnikov

VG

Vladimir Gostyukhin

Rybak

AS

Anatoliy Solonitsyn

Portnov, collaborationist interrogator

LP

Lyudmila Polyakova

Avginya Demchikha, the mother

VG

Viktoriya Goldentul

Basya Meyer, the girl

SY

Sergei Yakovlev

Petr Sych, village elder

MV

Mariya Vinogradova

Village elder's wife

MS

Mykola Sektymenko

Stas Gomenyuk, collaborationist policeman

LY

Leonid Yukhin

Partisan commander

AZ

Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy

German officer

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