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Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all his relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through his eyes.


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
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
Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy
German officer
The Ascent is a drama, war film released in 1977 exploring themes of based on novel or book, winter, world war ii, soviet union, snow, torture. Directed by Larisa Shepitko, it stars Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Anatoliy Solonitsyn. 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.
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