The Ascent
Voskhozhdenie
1977, Film, 111 min, Drama, War, Russian, 0, MoviePedia score 76
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.
Directed by Larisa Shepitko
Cast
- Boris Plotnikov as Boris Sotnikov
- Vladimir Gostyukhin as Nikolay Rybak
- Sergey Yakovlev as Pyotr Sych - Village elder
- Lyudmila Polyakova as Avginya Demchikha
- Viktoriya Goldentul as Basya
- Anatoliy Solonitsyn as Pavel Portnov - the Nazi interrogator
- Mariya Vinogradova as Village elder's wife
- Nikolai Sektimenko as Stas' Gamanyuk
- Anatoli Chebotaryov as German officer with glasses
- Sergei Kanishchev as Boy wearing Budyonovka
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