The Ascent (1977)

  • TP
  • 11/23/1977 (FR)
  • Drama, War
  • 1h 50m

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.

Vasili Bykov

Novel

Larisa Shepitko

Writer, Director

Yuri Klepikov

Writer

Cast

Boris Plotnikov's headshot

Boris Plotnikov

Sotnikov
Vladimir Gostyukhin's headshot

Vladimir Gostyukhin

Rybak
Anatoliy Solonitsyn's headshot

Anatoliy Solonitsyn

Portnov, collaborationist interrogator
Lyudmila Polyakova's headshot

Lyudmila Polyakova

Avginya Demchikha, the mother
Viktoriya Goldentul's headshot

Viktoriya Goldentul

Basya Meyer, the girl
Sergei Yakovlev's headshot

Sergei Yakovlev

Petr Sych, village elder
Mariya Vinogradova's headshot

Mariya Vinogradova

Village elder's wife
Mykola Sektymenko's headshot

Mykola Sektymenko

Stas Gomenyuk, collaborationist policeman

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