Film
The Ascent
1977 · 1h 50m · Drama · War
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- 8.2
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 100%
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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
Boris Plotnikov
Sotnikov
Vladimir Gostyukhin
Rybak
Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Portnov, collaborationist interrogator
Lyudmila Polyakova
Avginya Demchikha, the mother
Viktoriya Goldentul
Basya Meyer, the girl
Sergei Yakovlev
Petr Sych, village elder
Mariya Vinogradova
Village elder's wife
Mykola Sektymenko
Stas Gomenyuk, collaborationist policeman
Leonid Yukhin
Partisan commander
Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy
German officer
Vladimir Rudyy
German officer with black glasses
Anatoli Chebotaryov
German officer with glasses
Vasili Kravtsov
German officer
Vladimir Tkalich
German officer
Aleksandr Pyatkov
German soldier, executioner
Sergey Yurtaykin
Cart driver
Crew
- Larisa ShepitkoDirector · Writer
- Yuri KlepikovWriter
- Vasili BykovNovel
- Willie GellerProducer
- Vladimir ChukhnovDirector of Photography
- Alfred SchnittkeOriginal Music Composer
- Valeriya BelovaEditor
Media
Details
- Release date
- April 2, 1977
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Russian
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Rated
- TP
- Genres
- Drama, War
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