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The Ascent

The Ascent

19777.81h 49m

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
Written by Vasili Bykov, Yuri Klepikov, Larisa Shepitko
Produced by Willie Geller
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Top Cast

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

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

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Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy

German officer

Themes & Keywords

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About The Ascent

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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