The Ascent

Name: The Ascent
Genre: Drama, War
Released: 1977
Duration: 110 min
Rating: 7.9

1977 · 110 min

Drama · War

★ 7.9

Criterion

Trailer

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.

Crew

Director Larisa Shepitko
Writer Larisa Shepitko
Writer Yuri Klepikov
Director of Photography Vladimir Chukhnov

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
A
Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy
German officer
Vladimir Rudyy
German officer with black glasses
A
Anatoli Chebotaryov
German officer with glasses

Crew

Director — Larisa Shepitko
Writer — Larisa Shepitko
Writer — Yuri Klepikov
Director of Photography — Vladimir Chukhnov

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Intermission

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