The Ascent

Larisa Shepitko
1977-04-02


7.791
109 min

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

Name Character Team
Boris Plotnikov Sotnikov Unowned
Vladimir Gostyukhin Rybak Unowned
Anatoliy Solonitsyn Portnov, collaborationist interrogator Unowned
Lyudmila Polyakova Avginya Demchikha, the mother Unowned
Viktoriya Goldentul Basya Meyer, the girl Unowned
Sergei Yakovlev Petr Sych, village elder Unowned
Mariya Vinogradova Village elder's wife Unowned
Mykola Sektymenko Stas Gomenyuk, collaborationist policeman Unowned
Leonid Yukhin Partisan commander Unowned
Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy German officer Unowned
Vladimir Rudyy German officer with black glasses Unowned
Anatoli Chebotaryov German officer with glasses Unowned
Vasili Kravtsov German officer Unowned
Vladimir Tkalich German officer Unowned
Aleksandr Pyatkov German soldier, executioner Unowned
Sergey Yurtaykin Cart driver Unowned
Igor Bezyaev Soviet partisan Unowned
Stanislav Borodokin Soviet partisan Unowned
Stanislav Zhitaryov Soviet partisan Unowned
Vadim Gusev Soviet partisan Unowned
Aleksandra Kharitonova Soviet partisan with a child Unowned
Gennadi Nenashev Matyushenko, Soviet partisan Unowned
Galina Bulkina Peasant woman Unowned
Mikhail Selyutin Collaborator Unowned
V. Sokolov Collaborationist policeman Unowned
Sergei Kanishchev Boy wearing a budenovka Unowned
Dima Buranov Child Unowned
Svetlana Kulkova Child Unowned
Marina Pchelintseva Child Unowned
Vladimir Sukhorebry Unowned
Nikolay Gagarin Unowned
Nikolai Smirnov Unowned
Sergey Fyodorov Unowned
A. Gerasimov Unowned
V. Lavrentyev Unowned
N. Chetvergov Unowned
A. Naumova Unowned
Yevgeniy Markov German officer (uncredited) Unowned