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7.8253 votes

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The Ascent

1977•1h 50m•Drama, War

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.

Top cast

Boris Plotnikov

Boris Plotnikov

Vladimir Gostyukhin

Vladimir Gostyukhin

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

Partisan commander

Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy

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Keywords

based on novel or book winter world war ii soviet union snow

Details

Director: Larisa Shepitko
Writer: Yuri Klepikov, Larisa Shepitko
Production: Mosfilm
Country: Russia
Original language: Russian
Release date: April 2, 1977
Status: Released

nazi collaborationism

wounded soldier

death by hanging

german invasion

christian allegory

psychological drama

crimes against civilians

nazi collaborator

loyal vs traitor