The Ascent (1977)
Original title: Восхождение
The Ascent is a 1977 Russian-language drama movie directed by Larisa Shepitko, with a running time of 1h 49m. It stars Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin and Anatoliy Solonitsyn.
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.
Where to watch The Ascent
Stream: Criterion Channel
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Cast
- 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
- Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy as German officer
- Vladimir Rudyy as German officer with black glasses
- Anatoli Chebotaryov as German officer with glasses