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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.

Release: 1977-04-02
Runtime: 109 min
Rating: 7.835 / 10
Cast
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
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Sergei Yakovlev
Petr Sych, village elder
Mariya Vinogradova
Mariya Vinogradova
Village elder's wife
Mykola Sektymenko
Mykola Sektymenko
Stas Gomenyuk, collaborationist policeman
Leonid Yukhin
Leonid Yukhin
Partisan commander
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Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy
German officer
Vladimir Rudyy
Vladimir Rudyy
German officer with black glasses
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Anatoli Chebotaryov
German officer with glasses
Vasili Kravtsov
Vasili Kravtsov
German officer
Vladimir Tkalich
Vladimir Tkalich
German officer
Aleksandr Pyatkov
Aleksandr Pyatkov
German soldier, executioner
Sergey Yurtaykin
Sergey Yurtaykin
Cart driver
Igor Bezyaev
Igor Bezyaev
Soviet partisan
Stanislav Borodokin
Stanislav Borodokin
Soviet partisan