The Ascent (1977)

Name: The Ascent
Genre: Drama, War
Released: 1977-04-02
Cast: Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Lyudmila Polyakova, Viktoriya Goldentul

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.

Director

Larisa Shepitko

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