The Ascent

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 Sotnikov

Vladimir Gostyukhin Rybak

Anatoliy Solonitsyn Portnov, collaborationist interrogator

Lyudmila Polyakova Avginya Demchikha, the mother

Viktoriya Goldentul Basya Meyer, the girl