The Ascent

IMDb 7.8 1977 • 109 min • DramaWarHistory

Director

Larisa Shepitko

Country

SU

Plot Summary

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 Sotnikov
Vladimir Gostyukhin
Vladimir Gostyukhin Rybak
Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Anatoliy Solonitsyn Portnov, collaborationist interrogator
Lyudmila Polyakova
Lyudmila Polyakova Avginya Demchikha, the mother
Viktoriya Goldentul
Viktoriya Goldentul Basya Meyer, the girl

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