The Ascent

Synopsis

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.

Cast & Crew

Director

Larisa Shepitko

Featured Cast

Boris Plotnikov

Sotnikov

Vladimir Gostyukhin

Rybak

Anatoliy Solonitsyn

Portnov, collaborationist interrogator

Lyudmila Polyakova

Avginya Demchikha, the mother

Viktoriya Goldentul

Basya Meyer, the girl

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