The Ascent
The Ascent

The Ascent

7.8
April 2, 1977
1h 49m
DramaWarHistory

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.

Director

Larisa Shepitko

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

Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy

German officer

Vladimir Rudyy

Vladimir Rudyy

German officer with black glasses

Anatoli Chebotaryov

German officer with glasses