The Ascent
1977/04/02 • Released • German, Russian
Overview
Two Soviet partisans leave their starving band to get supplies from a nearby farm. The Germans have reached the farm first, so the pair must go on a journey deep into occupied territory, a voyage that will also take them deep into their souls.
Director : Larisa Shepitko
Casts
Boris Plotnikov
Sotnikov
Vladimir Gostyukhin
Rybak
Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Portnov, collaborationist interrogator
Lyudmila Polyakova
Avginya Demchikha, the mother
Viktoriya Goldentul
Basya Meyer, the girl
Mariya Vinogradova
Village elder's wife
Mykola Sektymenko
Stas Gomenyuk, collaborationist policeman
Leonid Yukhin
Partisan commander
Vladimir Rudyy
German officer with black glasses
Vasili Kravtsov
German officer
Vladimir Tkalich
German officer
Aleksandr Pyatkov
German soldier, executioner
Sergey Yurtaykin
Cart driver
Igor Bezyaev
Soviet partisan
Stanislav Borodokin
Soviet partisan
Stanislav Zhitaryov
Soviet partisan
Aleksandra Kharitonova
Soviet partisan with a child
Galina Bulkina
Peasant woman
Mikhail Selyutin
Collaborator
Nikolay Gagarin
Nikolai Smirnov
Sergey Fyodorov
Yevgeniy Markov
German officer (uncredited)
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