The Ascent (1977)
Drama · War
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
- 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