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The Ascent

Original title: Восхождение

  • Movie
  • 1977
  • 1h 50m

Directed by Larisa Shepitko

7.9

TMDB audience rating
7.9 out of 10 from 265 votes

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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.

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Cast and crew

  • Boris Plotnikov

    Boris PlotnikovSotnikov

  • Vladimir Gostyukhin

    Vladimir GostyukhinRybak

  • Anatoliy Solonitsyn

    Anatoliy SolonitsynPortnov, Collaborationist Interrogator

  • Lyudmila Polyakova

    Lyudmila PolyakovaAvginya Demchikha, the Mother

  • Viktoriya Goldentul

    Viktoriya GoldentulBasya Meyer, the Girl

  • Sergei Yakovlev

    Sergei YakovlevPetr Sych, Village Elder

  • Mariya Vinogradova

    Mariya VinogradovaVillage Elder's Wife

  • Mykola Sektymenko

    Mykola SektymenkoStas Gomenyuk, Collaborationist Policeman

  • Leonid Yukhin

    Leonid YukhinPartisan Commander

  • Aleksandr ZvenigorskiyGerman Officer

  • Vladimir Rudyy

    Vladimir RudyyGerman Officer with Black Glasses

  • Anatoli ChebotaryovGerman Officer with Glasses

  • Vasili Kravtsov

    Vasili KravtsovGerman Officer

  • Vladimir Tkalich

    Vladimir TkalichGerman Officer

  • Aleksandr Pyatkov

    Aleksandr PyatkovGerman Soldier, Executioner

  • Sergey Yurtaykin

    Sergey YurtaykinCart Driver

  • Igor Bezyaev

    Igor BezyaevSoviet Partisan

  • Stanislav Borodokin

    Stanislav BorodokinSoviet Partisan

Director
Larisa Shepitko
Writer
Vasili Bykov, Yuri Klepikov and Larisa Shepitko
Music
Alfred Schnittke
Cinematography
Vladimir Chukhnov