The Ascent

The Criterion Channel

The Ascent

1h 51 min

1977

Soviet Union

8.2

Two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.

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Cast

Boris Plotnikov

Boris Plotnikov

Boris Sotnikov

Vladimir Gostyukhin

Vladimir Gostyukhin

Nikolay Rybak

Sergey Yakovlev

Sergey Yakovlev

Pyotr Sych - Village elder

Lyudmila Polyakova

Lyudmila Polyakova

Avginya Demchikha

Viktoriya Goldentul

Viktoriya Goldentul

Basya

Anatoliy Solonitsyn

Anatoliy Solonitsyn

Pavel Portnov - the Nazi interrogator

Mariya Vinogradova

Mariya Vinogradova

Village elder's wife

Nikolai Sektimenko

Nikolai Sektimenko

Stas' Gamanyuk

Anatoli Chebotaryov

German officer with glasses

Sergei Kanishchev

Sergei Kanishchev

Boy wearing Budyonovka

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