The Ascent
1977 · Movie · 109 min · ★ 7.8
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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Details
- Years
- 1977
- Release date
- 1977-04-02
- Language
- Russian
- Runtime
- 109 min
- TMDB rating
- 7.8/10 (246 votes)
Themes
- based on novel or book
- winter
- world war ii
- soviet union
- snow
- torture
- bullet wound
- partisan
- hanged man
- death
- nazi collaborationism
- wounded soldier
- +23 more
Awards & recognition
- Golden Bear · 1977
- International Submission to the Academy Awards · 1978 · nominated
Cast & crew
Boris Plotnikov
as Sotnikov
Vladimir Gostyukhin
as Rybak
Anatoliy Solonitsyn
as Portnov, collaborationist interrogator
Lyudmila Polyakova
as Avginya Demchikha, the mother
Viktoriya Goldentul
as Basya Meyer, the girl
Sergei Yakovlev
as Petr Sych, village elder
Mariya Vinogradova
as Village elder's wife
Mykola Sektymenko
as Stas Gomenyuk, collaborationist policeman
Leonid Yukhin
as Partisan commander
- AZ
Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy
as German officer
Directed by Larisa Shepitko