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The Ascent

7.819771h 50mReleased253 votes

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
Country:
Soviet Union
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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

  • Vasili Kravtsov

    German officer

  • Vladimir Tkalich

    German officer

  • Aleksandr Pyatkov

    German soldier, executioner

  • Sergey Yurtaykin

    Cart driver

  • Igor Bezyaev

    Soviet partisan

  • Stanislav Borodokin

    Soviet partisan

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