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The Ascent

1977-04-021h 50mDrama / War7.9/10TMDB · 257 votes

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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Directed byLarisa Shepitko

Original languageRussian

Original release1977-04-02

ProductionSoviet Union

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Boris PlotnikovSotnikov

Vladimir GostyukhinRybak

Anatoliy SolonitsynPortnov, Collaborationist Interrogator

Lyudmila PolyakovaAvginya Demchikha, the Mother

Viktoriya GoldentulBasya Meyer, the Girl

Sergei YakovlevPetr Sych, Village Elder

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Mariya VinogradovaVillage Elder's Wife Mykola SektymenkoStas Gomenyuk, Collaborationist Policeman Leonid YukhinPartisan Commander Aleksandr ZvenigorskiyGerman Officer Vladimir RudyyGerman Officer with Black Glasses Anatoli ChebotaryovGerman Officer with Glasses Vasili KravtsovGerman Officer Vladimir Tkalich

German Officer

Aleksandr PyatkovGerman Soldier, Executioner

Sergey YurtaykinCart Driver

Igor BezyaevSoviet Partisan

Stanislav BorodokinSoviet Partisan

Stanislav ZhitaryovSoviet Partisan

Vadim GusevSoviet Partisan

Aleksandra KharitonovaSoviet Partisan with a Child

Gennadi NenashevMatyushenko, Soviet Partisan

Galina BulkinaPeasant Woman

Mikhail SelyutinCollaborator

V. SokolovCollaborationist Policeman

Sergei KanishchevBoy Wearing a Budenovka

Dima BuranovChild

Svetlana KulkovaChild

Marina PchelintsevaChild

Vladimir Sukhorebry

Nikolay Gagarin

Nikolai Smirnov

Sergey Fyodorov

A. Gerasimov

V. Lavrentyev

N. Chetvergov

Yevgeniy MarkovGerman Officer (uncredited)

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