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The Ascent

Original title: Восхождение

★ 7.9 TMDB Rating · 261 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.

Director
Larisa Shepitko
Release date
Apr 2, 1977
Original language
Russian
Origin
Russia

Cast of The Ascent

  • Portrait of Boris Plotnikov

    Boris Plotnikov

    Sotnikov

  • Portrait of Vladimir Gostyukhin

    Vladimir Gostyukhin

    Rybak

  • Portrait of Anatoliy Solonitsyn

    Anatoliy Solonitsyn

    Portnov, Collaborationist Interrogator

  • Portrait of Lyudmila Polyakova

    Lyudmila Polyakova

    Avginya Demchikha, the Mother

  • Portrait of Viktoriya Goldentul

    Viktoriya Goldentul

    Basya Meyer, the Girl

  • Portrait of Sergei Yakovlev

    Sergei Yakovlev

    Petr Sych, Village Elder

  • Portrait of Mariya Vinogradova

    Mariya Vinogradova

    Village Elder's Wife

  • Portrait of Mykola Sektymenko

    Mykola Sektymenko

    Stas Gomenyuk, Collaborationist Policeman

  • Portrait of Leonid Yukhin

    Leonid Yukhin

    Partisan Commander

  • Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy

    German Officer

  • Portrait of Vladimir Rudyy

    Vladimir Rudyy

    German Officer with Black Glasses

  • Anatoli Chebotaryov

    German Officer with Glasses

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Canada
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Australia
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