The Ascent (1977)
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.
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Cast
- Boris Plotnikov — Sotnikov
- Vladimir Gostyukhin — Rybak
- Anatoliy Solonitsyn — Portnov, Collaborationist Interrogator
- Lyudmila Polyakova — Avginya Demchikha, the Mother
- Viktoriya Goldentul — Basya Meyer, the Girl
- Sergei Yakovlev — Petr Sych, Village Elder
- Mariya Vinogradova — Village Elder's Wife
- Mykola Sektymenko — Stas Gomenyuk, Collaborationist Policeman
- Leonid Yukhin — Partisan Commander
- Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy — German Officer
- Vladimir Rudyy — German Officer with Black Glasses
- Anatoli Chebotaryov — German Officer with Glasses
Where to watch The Ascent
Criterion Channel
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