The Ascent
The Ascent
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.
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Top Cast
Boris Plotnikov
As Sotnikov
Vladimir Gostyukhin
As Rybak
Anatoliy Solonitsyn
As Portnov, collaborationist interrogator
Lyudmila Polyakova
As Avginya Demchikha, the mother
Viktoriya Goldentul
As Basya Meyer, the girl
Sergei Yakovlev
As Petr Sych, village elder
Mariya Vinogradova
As Village elder's wife
Mykola Sektymenko
As Stas Gomenyuk, collaborationist policeman
Leonid Yukhin
As Partisan commander
Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy
As German officer
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Director
Larisa Shepitko
Budget / Revenue
$0.0M / $0.0M
