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The Ascent

7.919771h 50mTP

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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CAST

The people behind the story

Boris Plotnikov

Boris PlotnikovSotnikov

Vladimir Gostyukhin

Vladimir GostyukhinRybak

Anatoliy Solonitsyn

Anatoliy SolonitsynPortnov, collaborationist interrogator

Lyudmila Polyakova

Lyudmila PolyakovaAvginya Demchikha, the mother

Viktoriya Goldentul

Viktoriya GoldentulBasya Meyer, the girl

Sergei Yakovlev

Sergei YakovlevPetr Sych, village elder

Mariya Vinogradova

Mariya VinogradovaVillage elder's wife

Mykola Sektymenko

Mykola SektymenkoStas Gomenyuk, collaborationist policeman