The Ascent
April 2, 1977
Overview
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.
Cast and crew
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Larisa Shepitko
Director
Boris Plotnikov
Sotnikov
Vladimir Gostyukhin
Rybak
Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Portnov
Lyudmila Polyakova
Avginya Demchikha
Viktoriya Goldentul
Basya Meyer
Sergei Yakovlev
Petr Sych
Mariya Vinogradova
Village elder's wife
Mykola Sektymenko
Stas Gomenyuk
Leonid Yukhin
Partisan commander
AZ
Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy
German officer
Vladimir Rudyy
German officer with black glasses
AC
Anatoli Chebotaryov
German officer with glasses
Vasili Kravtsov
German officer
Vladimir Tkalich
German officer
Aleksandr Pyatkov
German soldier
Sergey Yurtaykin
Cart driver
Igor Bezyaev
Soviet partisan
Stanislav Borodokin
Soviet partisan
Stanislav Zhitaryov
Soviet partisan
VH
Vadym Husiev
Soviet partisan
Aleksandra Kharitonova
Soviet partisan with a child
GN
Gennadi Nenashev
Matyushenko
Galina Bulkina
Peasant woman
Mikhail Selyutin
Collaborator
VS
V. Sokolov
Collaborationist policeman
SK
Sergei Kanishchev
Boy wearing a budenovka
DB
Dima Buranov
Child
SK
Svetlana Kulkova
Child
MP
Marina Pchelintseva
Child
VS
Vladimir Sukhorebry
Nikolay Gagarin
Nikolai Smirnov
Sergey Fyodorov
AG
A. Gerasimov
VL
V. Lavrentyev
NC
N. Chetvergov
AN
A. Naumova
Yevgeniy Markov
German officer (uncredited)