The Ascent

Original title: Восхождение

Duration: 109 min

Release date: 1977-04-02

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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.

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Boris Plotnikov

Boris Plotnikov

Vladimir Gostyukhin

Vladimir Gostyukhin

Anatoliy Solonitsyn

Anatoliy Solonitsyn

as Portnov, collaborationist interrogator

Lyudmila Polyakova

Lyudmila Polyakova

as Avginya Demchikha, the mother

Viktoriya Goldentul

Viktoriya Goldentul

as Basya Meyer, the girl

Sergei Yakovlev

Sergei Yakovlev

as Petr Sych, village elder

Mariya Vinogradova

Mariya Vinogradova

as Village elder's wife

Mykola Sektymenko

Mykola Sektymenko

as Stas Gomenyuk, collaborationist policeman

as Partisan commander

Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy

Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy

as German officer

as German officer with black glasses

Anatoli Chebotaryov

Anatoli Chebotaryov

as German officer with glasses

Vasili Kravtsov

Vasili Kravtsov

as German officer

Vladimir Tkalich

Vladimir Tkalich

as German officer

Aleksandr Pyatkov

Aleksandr Pyatkov

as German soldier, executioner

Sergey Yurtaykin

Sergey Yurtaykin

as Soviet partisan

Stanislav Borodokin

Stanislav Borodokin

as Soviet partisan

Stanislav Zhitaryov

Stanislav Zhitaryov

as Soviet partisan

as Soviet partisan

Aleksandra Kharitonova

Aleksandra Kharitonova

as Soviet partisan with a child

Gennadi Nenashev

Gennadi Nenashev

as Matyushenko, Soviet partisan

as Peasant woman

Mikhail Selyutin

Mikhail Selyutin

as Collaborator

as Collaborationist policeman

Sergei Kanishchev

Sergei Kanishchev

as Boy wearing a budenovka

Svetlana Kulkova

Svetlana Kulkova

Marina Pchelintseva

Marina Pchelintseva

Vladimir Sukhorebry

Vladimir Sukhorebry

Nikolay Gagarin

Nikolay Gagarin

Nikolai Smirnov

Nikolai Smirnov

Sergey Fyodorov

Sergey Fyodorov

Yevgeniy Markov

Yevgeniy Markov

as German officer (uncredited)

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Larisa Shepitko

Larisa Shepitko

Alfred Schnittke

Alfred Schnittke

Original Music Composer

Larisa Shepitko

Larisa Shepitko

Valeriya Belova

Valeriya Belova

Vladimir Chukhnov

Vladimir Chukhnov

Director of Photography

Production Design

Yuriy Nikolayevskiy

Yuriy Nikolayevskiy

Eduard Shcherbakov

Eduard Shcherbakov

Camera Operator

Yevgeniy Bazanov

Yevgeniy Bazanov

Sound Recordist

Military Consultant

Scientific Consultant

Alina Budnikova

Alina Budnikova

VFX Director of Photography

V. Zagorodnikov

V. Zagorodnikov

Lighting Artist

Leonid Podsukhskiy

Leonid Podsukhskiy

Lighting Artist

Lighting Artist

Eleonora Praksina

Eleonora Praksina

Assistant Editor

Assistant Camera

Assistant Camera

First Assistant Director

Second Assistant Director

Valentina Khovanskaya

Valentina Khovanskaya

Assistant Director

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