The Ascent

Plot Summary

Two Soviet partisans leave their starving band to get supplies from a nearby farm. The Germans have reached the farm first, so the pair must go on a journey deep into occupied territory, a voyage that will also take them deep into their souls.

Top Cast

Boris Plotnikov Sotnikov

Vladimir Gostyukhin Rybak

Anatoliy Solonitsyn Portnov, collaborationist interrogator

Lyudmila Polyakova Avginya Demchikha, the mother

Viktoriya Goldentul Basya Meyer, the girl