The Ascent
Восхождение
19771ч 49мин
(245)
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
Details
Basic Info
StatusReleased
Release DateApril 2, 1977
Original Languageru
Statistics
Vote Count245
Popularity2
Languages
RussianGerman
Production Countries
Soviet Union
Production Companies
Mosfilm
Crew
Writers
Yuri Klepikov
Larisa Shepitko
Producers
Willie Geller
Composer
Alfred Schnittke
Cinematography
Vladimir Chukhnov
Editor
Valeriya Belova
Keywords
based on novel or bookwinterworld war iisoviet unionsnowtorturebullet woundpartisanhanged mandeathnazi collaborationismwounded soldierwoman directorintegritycaptured1940ssombermass hangingfear of deathjesus christcollaboratorbelaruschrist figuredeath by hanginggerman invasionwarussrchristian allegorytorturedpublic hangingcrimes against civiliansnazi collaboratorloyal vs traitormoral values
Cast
Boris Plotnikov
Sotnikov
Vladimir Gostyukhin
Rybak
Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Portnov, collaborationist interrogator
Lyudmila Polyakova
Avginya Demchikha, the mother
Viktoriya Goldentul
Basya Meyer, the girl
Sergei Yakovlev
Petr Sych, village elder
Mariya Vinogradova
Village elder's wife
Mykola Sektymenko
Stas Gomenyuk, collaborationist policeman
Leonid Yukhin
Partisan commander
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Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy
German officer
Vladimir Rudyy
German officer with black glasses
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Anatoli Chebotaryov
German officer with glasses
