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The Ascent

The Ascent1977

★7.9110 minDramaWar

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

Writer

Yuri Klepikov Larisa Shepitko

Score

Alfred Schnittke

Stars

Boris Plotnikov Vladimir Gostyukhin Anatoliy Solonitsyn

Cast38

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
A
Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy
as German officer
Vladimir Rudyy
as German officer with black glasses
A
Anatoli Chebotaryov
as German officer with glasses
Vasili Kravtsov
as German officer
Vladimir Tkalich
as German officer
Aleksandr Pyatkov
as German soldier, executioner
Sergey Yurtaykin
as Cart driver
Igor Bezyaev
as Soviet partisan
Stanislav Borodokin
as Soviet partisan
Stanislav Zhitaryov
as Soviet partisan
V
Vadim Gusev
as Soviet partisan
Aleksandra Kharitonova
as Soviet partisan with a child
G
Gennadi Nenashev
as Matyushenko, Soviet partisan
Galina Bulkina
as Peasant woman
Mikhail Selyutin
as Collaborator
V
V. Sokolov
as Collaborationist policeman
S
Sergei Kanishchev
as Boy wearing a budenovka
D
Dima Buranov
as Child
S
Svetlana Kulkova
as Child
M
Marina Pchelintseva
as Child
V
Vladimir Sukhorebry
Nikolay Gagarin
Nikolai Smirnov
Sergey Fyodorov
A
A. Gerasimov
V
V. Lavrentyev
N
N. Chetvergov
A
A. Naumova
Yevgeniy Markov
as German officer (uncredited)

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