The Ascent (1977)
Kernel Score: 87% · 237 ratings
Genres: Drama, War
Released: 1977-04-02
Runtime: 109 minutes
Overview
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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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