The Ascent
Film1977110 min7.9/10 on TMDB
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Directed by Larisa Shepitko
The story
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.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Boris PlotnikovSotnikov
Vladimir GostyukhinRybak
Anatoliy SolonitsynPortnov, Collaborationist Interrogator
Lyudmila PolyakovaAvginya Demchikha, the Mother
Viktoriya GoldentulBasya Meyer, the Girl
Sergei YakovlevPetr Sych, Village Elder
Mariya VinogradovaVillage Elder's Wife
Mykola SektymenkoStas Gomenyuk, Collaborationist Policeman
Leonid YukhinPartisan CommanderAleksandr Zvenigorskiy
Aleksandr ZvenigorskiyGerman Officer
Vladimir RudyyGerman Officer with Black GlassesAnatoli Chebotaryov
Anatoli ChebotaryovGerman Officer with GlassesExplore the crew
- Director
- Larisa Shepitko
- Writer
- Yuri Klepikov
- Writer
- Larisa Shepitko
- Editor
- Valeriya Belova
- Original Music Composer
- Alfred Schnittke
- Director of Photography
- Vladimir Chukhnov
- Producer
- Willie Geller