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The Ascent

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The Ascent

Directed by Larisa Shepitko

★ 7.9263 ratings
DramaWar

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 PlotnikovSotnikov
Vladimir GostyukhinRybak
Anatoliy SolonitsynPortnov, Collaborationist Interrogator
Lyudmila PolyakovaAvginya Demchikha, the Mother
Viktoriya GoldentulBasya Meyer, the Girl
Sergei YakovlevPetr Sych, Village Elder
Mariya VinogradovaVillage Elder's Wife
Mykola SektymenkoStas Gomenyuk, Collaborationist Policeman
Leonid YukhinPartisan Commander
Aleksandr ZvenigorskiyGerman Officer