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The Ascent

7.9/ 1019771h 50m

DramaWar

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

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The cast

Faces behind the story

Boris Plotnikov

Boris Plotnikov

Sotnikov

Vladimir Gostyukhin

Vladimir Gostyukhin

Rybak

Anatoliy Solonitsyn

Anatoliy Solonitsyn

Portnov, Collaborationist Interrogator

Lyudmila Polyakova

Lyudmila Polyakova

Avginya Demchikha, the Mother

Viktoriya Goldentul

Viktoriya Goldentul

Basya Meyer, the Girl

Sergei Yakovlev

Sergei Yakovlev

Petr Sych, Village Elder

Mariya Vinogradova

Mariya Vinogradova

Village Elder's Wife

Mykola Sektymenko

Mykola Sektymenko

Stas Gomenyuk, Collaborationist Policeman