The Ascent (1977)
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
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Boris Plotnikov
as Sotnikov
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Vladimir Gostyukhin
as Rybak
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Anatoliy Solonitsyn
as Portnov, collaborationist interrogator
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Lyudmila Polyakova
as Avginya Demchikha, the mother
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Viktoriya Goldentul
as Basya Meyer, the girl
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Sergei Yakovlev
as Petr Sych, village elder
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Mariya Vinogradova
as Village elder's wife
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Mykola Sektymenko
as Stas Gomenyuk, collaborationist policeman
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Leonid Yukhin
as Partisan commander
- Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy as German officer
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Vladimir Rudyy
as German officer with black glasses
- Anatoli Chebotaryov as German officer with glasses
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Vasili Kravtsov
as German officer
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Vladimir Tkalich
as German officer
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Aleksandr Pyatkov
as German soldier, executioner
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Sergey Yurtaykin
as Cart driver
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Igor Bezyaev
as Soviet partisan
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Stanislav Borodokin
as Soviet partisan
Crew
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Larisa Shepitko
Director
- Vladimir Chukhnov Director of Photography
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Valeriya Belova
Editor
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Alfred Schnittke
Original Music Composer
- Willie Geller Producer
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Yuri Klepikov
Writer
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Larisa Shepitko
Writer
