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The Ascent

1977 · 1h 50m · 7.8 on TMDB

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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.

Cast

Boris Plotnikov
Sotnikov
Vladimir Gostyukhin
Rybak
Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Portnov, collaborationist interrogator
Lyudmila Polyakova
Avginya Demchikha, the mother

Viktoriya Goldentul

Viktoriya Goldentul

Basya Meyer, the girl

Sergei Yakovlev

Sergei Yakovlev

Petr Sych, village elder

Mariya Vinogradova

Mariya Vinogradova

Village elder's wife

Mykola Sektymenko

Mykola Sektymenko

Stas Gomenyuk, collaborationist policeman

Leonid Yukhin

Leonid Yukhin

Partisan commander

Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy

German officer

Vladimir Rudyy

Vladimir Rudyy

German officer with black glasses

Anatoli Chebotaryov

German officer with glasses

Production

Directed by

Larisa Shepitko

Where to watch

Criterion Channel

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Released: April 2, 1977

Awards

Golden Bear · 1977Berlinale

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