The Ascent
Восхождение
Drama
War
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.
1977-04-02
ru
Cast
Director
Larisa Shepitko
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
Vladimir Rudyy as German officer with black glasses
Vasili Kravtsov as German officer
Vladimir Tkalich as German officer
Aleksandr Pyatkov as German soldier, executioner
Sergey Yurtaykin as Cart driver
Igor Bezyaev as Soviet partisan
Stanislav Borodokin as Soviet partisan
Stanislav Zhitaryov as Soviet partisan
Aleksandra Kharitonova as Soviet partisan with a child
Galina Bulkina as Peasant woman
Mikhail Selyutin as Collaborator
Nikolay Gagarin
Nikolai Smirnov
Sergey Fyodorov
Yevgeniy Markov as German officer (uncredited)