The Ascent (1977)

7.8/10 109 min Drama War

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.

Cast

Boris Plotnikov

Sotnikov

Vladimir Gostyukhin

Rybak

Anatoliy Solonitsyn

Portnov, collaborationist interrogator

Lyudmila Polyakova

Avginya Demchikha, the mother

Viktoriya Goldentul

Basya Meyer, the girl

Sergei Yakovlev

Petr Sych, village elder

Mariya Vinogradova

Village elder's wife

Mykola Sektymenko

Stas Gomenyuk, collaborationist policeman

Leonid Yukhin

Partisan commander

Vladimir Rudyy

German officer with black glasses

Vasili Kravtsov

German officer

Vladimir Tkalich

German officer

Aleksandr Pyatkov

German soldier, executioner

Sergey Yurtaykin

Cart driver

Igor Bezyaev

Soviet partisan

Stanislav Borodokin

Soviet partisan

Stanislav Zhitaryov

Soviet partisan

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