The Ascent
7.819771h 50mReleased
Drama
War
Overview
StatusReleased
Release Date1977-04-02
Runtime1h 50m
LanguagesDeutschPусский
CountriesSoviet Union
Keywords
based on novel or book
winter
world war ii
soviet union
snow
torture
bullet wound
partisan
hanged man
death
nazi collaborationism
wounded soldier
woman director
integrity
captured
1940s
somber
mass hanging
fear of death
jesus christ
collaborator
belarus
christ figure
death by hanging
german invasion
war
ussr
christian allegory
tortured
psychological drama
public hanging
crimes against civilians
nazi collaborator
loyal vs traitor
moral values
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Cast & Crew
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
Reviews
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CinemaSerf
Dec 15, 2024
7/10
This starts and finishes with the same shot - a freezing cold snowscape peppered with a few telegraph poles amidst a wilderness that the Soviet population were prepared to to die to protect from the invading Nazis. Two Red Army partisans are doing their best to frustrate their enemy whilst combating the brutality of the terrain and the climate. "So…
